United States v. Theodore Edmonds

OPINION OF THE COURT

BECKER, Circuit Judge.

A federal jury convicted appellant Theodore Edmonds of violating the Continuing Criminal Enterprise statute (“CCE”), 21 U.S.C. § 848, which makes it a crime to organize, supervise, or manage five or more persons in a “continuing series of violations” of the federal narcotics laws. Edmonds argues that the district court erred in failing to instruct the jurors that, in order to convict, they must agree unanimously on which violations — of the eight alleged — constituted the three related violations necessary to establish a “continuing series.”

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