Legal Opinion
United States v. Larry Collins
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided September 7, 2000No. 98-3530PublishedCited by 23 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
KANNE, Circuit Judge.
Larry Collins was convicted of conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine and now raises four claims on appeal. He alleges that the district court erred by permitting the government to bolster the credibility of its witnesses and by giving both a factually incorrect jury instruction and an untimely “dynamite” jury instruction. He also challenges the constitutionality of the mandatory life sentence for multiple drug-crime convictions. We find that the factually incorrect jury instruction was error, but it was harmless under the circumstances. We affirm Collins’s conviction.
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