Opinion ID: 3063773
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Heading: Ammunition jury instruction

Text: We review a district court’s refusal to grant a mistrial for an abuse of discretion. United States v. Trujillo, 146 F.3d 838, 845 (11th Cir. 1998). We conduct “a de novo review of the district court's jury instructions when determining whether they misstate the law or mislead the jury to the prejudice of the objecting party.” United States v. Bender, 290 F.3d 1279, 1284 (11th Cir. 2002) (internal quotations and citation omitted). We examine “whether the jury charges, considered as a whole, sufficiently instructed the jury so that the jurors 7 understood the issues and were not misled.” United States v. Starke, 62 F.3d 1374, 1380 (11th Cir. 1995) (citation omitted). Because the instruction that the district court gave regarding the ammunition that was located inside the patrol car was not an inaccurate reflection of the law or misleading to the jury, the court did not abuse its discretion by denying Brye’s motion for a mistrial on this basis.