Pattern Criminal Jury Instructions of the TO MINORS

• Jurisdiction: United States
• Currency: Updated July 14, 2023
• Section: Pattern Criminal Jury Instructions

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3.08.13

DEATHPENALTYINSTRUCTIONS

3.08.13

CONTINUINGCRIMINALENTERPRISEINVOLVING

DRUG SALES TO MINORS

You must unanimously find that the government has

proved beyond a reasonable doubt that the defendant com-

mitted the offense in the course of engaging in a continuing

criminal enterprise, and that violation involved distributing

drugs to persons under the age of twenty-one and defendant

is a person over the age of eighteen.

A person engages in a continuingcriminalenterpriseif

(1) he commits [a felony defined in 21 U.S.C. section 848(c)]

and (2) that offense was part of a continuing series of offen-

ses [specified in 21 U.S.C. section 848(c)(1)] (A) which are

undertaken by such person in concert with five or more other

persons with respect to whom such person occupies a position

of organizer, a supervisory position, or any other position of

management, and (2) from which such person obtains

substantial income or resources.

Comment

18U.S.C. § 3592(c)(13);21U.S.C.§§848(c),859.