Opinion ID: 755850
Heading Depth: 1
Heading Rank: 5

Heading: Witness Credibility Instructions

Text: 27 Wyrick and Moore argue the district court erred by refusing to give their requested cautionary instructions regarding witnesses who testified pursuant to plea agreements and witnesses who testified falsely at prior proceedings. Moore also alleges error in the refusal to give his requested accomplice witness instruction. The court gave instructions, based upon Eighth Circuit Model Instruction 4.04, advising the jury to give the testimony of immunized witnesses such weight as the jurors thought it deserved, advising the jurors in weighing credibility to consider ... whether that witness said something different at an earlier time, and cautioning that the fact that trial witnesses pleaded guilty to a crime for which Moore and Wyrick were on trial must not be considered as evidence of their guilt. These instructions fairly covered the substance of the requested instruction[s]. United States v. Walker, 97 F.3d 253, 255 (8th Cir.1996). Failure to give an accomplice credibility instruction was not reversible error because the testimony was amply corroborated. See United States v. McGinnis, 783 F.2d 755, 758 (8th Cir.1986); cf. United States v. Einfeldt, 138 F.3d 313, 319 (8th Cir.1998). 28 The judgments of the district court are affirmed.