US-CA11 · jury_instructions
11th Cir. Pattern Jury Instr. (Criminal) O13.3
Multiple Conspiracies –
for use with General Conspiracy Charge 13.1
18 U.S.C. § 371
Proof of several separate conspiracies isn’t proof of the single, overall
conspiracy charged in the indictment unless one of the several conspiracies proved
is the single overall conspiracy.
You must decide whether the single overall conspiracy charged existed
between two or more conspirators. If not, then you must find the Defendants not
guilty of that charge.
But if you decide that a single overall conspiracy did exist, then you must
decide who the conspirators were. And if you decide that a particular Defendant
was a member of some other conspiracy – not the one charged – then you must
find that Defendant not guilty.
So to find a Defendant guilty, you must all agree that the Defendant was a
member of the conspiracy charged – not a member of some other separate
conspiracy.
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- 2026-08-20
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- criminal-2021-08
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