Legal Opinion
United States v. Matthew West
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
Decided June 17, 1994No. 93-3698PublishedCited by 18 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MAGILL, Circuit Judge.
The government appeals the district court’s grant of a new trial after a jury returned a guilty verdict against Matthew West for conspiracy to distribute and possess with intent to distribute lysergic acid diethyl-amide (LSD) in violation of 21 U.S.C. § 841(a)(1) (1988). The district court based its grant of a new trial on its independent discovery of a single jury instruction that it determined lowered the government’s burden of proof. We hold that the district court abused its discretion when it analyzed that one jury instruction in artificial isolation and determined…
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