Opinion ID: 157359
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Heading: Failure to Give a Multiple-Conspiracy Charge

Text: Vaziri and Quarterman contend that the district court erred in not giving a multiple-conspiracy instruction to the jury. No one requested such an instruction at trial, and therefore we must determine only if the court committed plain error in not giving such an instruction sua sponte. See United States v. Jamieson , 806 F.2d 949, 953 (10th Cir. 1986). There was no such error here; the relevant instructions given by the district court, see R. Vol. 25, Tr. at 2014, 2018-19, tracked the instructions approved in United States v. Evans , 970 F.2d 663, 675 -22- (10th Cir. 1992), and adequately conveyed the government’s burden of proof, see id.