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                            United States Court of Appeals
                            United States Court of Appeals
                                For the First Circuit
                                For the First Circuit
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        No. 95-1199

                                    UNITED STATES,

                                      Appellee,

                                          v.

                                    TRENT MANNING,

                                Defendant, Appellant.

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                     APPEAL FROM THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

                           FOR THE DISTRICT OF RHODE ISLAND

                     [Hon. Ernest C. Torres, U.S. District Judge]
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                                        Before

                                 Selya, Cyr and Stahl,
                                   Circuit Judges.
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            Robert  B.  Mann  with  whom Mann  &  Mitchell  was on  brief  for
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        appellant.
            Sheldon  Whitehouse, United  States Attorney, with  whom Assistant
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        United States Attorneys were on brief for appellee.

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                                    March 21, 1996
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                      STAHL, Circuit Judge.   On May 6, 1994,  this court
                      STAHL, Circuit Judge.
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            vacated defendant-appellant Trent  Manning's convictions  for

            possession with  intent to distribute cocaine  (Count I), use

            of a firearm  during and  in relation to  a drug  trafficking

            crime  (Count II), and possession of a firearm by a convicted

            felon  (Count  III),  holding that  prosecutorial  misconduct

            during  closing  arguments warranted  a  new  trial.   United
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            States v.  Manning,  23 F.3d  570,  573-76 (1st  Cir.  1994).
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            After his  second jury  trial in  November  of 1994,  Manning

            again was convicted on all three  counts.  Manning challenges

            this latest round of  convictions, claiming that the district

            court  erred in:   (1)  denying his  motion for  acquittal on

            Count II, (2) admitting evidence of uncharged misconduct, (3)

            denying his  request for  an expert, (4)  precluding evidence

            and argument regarding  his potential  sentence, (5)  denying

            his  motion to suppress evidence  found during the October 7,

            1991 search, (6) instructing the jury, and  (7) responding to

            the  jury's inquiry.  Finding no merit in Manning's first six

            claims,  we  affirm  his convictions  on  Counts  I and  III.

            Finding  that the district  court erred in  responding to the

            jury's inquiry,  however, we  vacate Manning's  conviction on

            Count II and remand Count II for a new trial.

                                          I.
                                          I.
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                                      BACKGROUND
                                      BACKGROUND
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                      Viewing the evidence in the light most favorable to

            the verdict, United  States v. Wihbey, No. 95-1291,  slip op.
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            at 2 (1st  Cir. Feb. 6, 1996), we conclude  that a reasonable

            jury could have found the following facts.

                      Late in  the afternoon on October  7, 1991, several

            members of the Providence Police Department executed a search

            warrant  at Manning's  mother's house,  located at  151 Doyle

            Avenue in  Providence,  Rhode Island.    Just three  or  four

            minutes  before the  raid, Detective  David Lussier,  who had

            known  Manning  for some  time, saw  Manning and  a passenger

            drive  by his surveillance  position (in a  parking lot about

            fifty yards from 151 Doyle Avenue with a direct view into its

            rear  yard) in Manning's red Jeep Cherokee.  Fearing that eye

            contact  with  Manning  had  compromised   his  surveillance,

            Lussier ordered that the warrant be executed.

                      Thereupon, Detective Joseph  Lennon approached  the

            rear of 151  Doyle Avenue and saw  Manning, whom he knew  and

            with  whom  he had  conversed  on  other occasions,  standing

            outside  the Cherokee and in  front of the  garage, holding a

            brown  briefcase in his left hand.  Lennon identified himself

            as a police officer  and, with gun drawn, ordered  Manning to

            stop.   Manning, ignoring this directive,  walked slowly into

            the garage with   briefcase in hand, closing and  locking the

            door  behind  him.     Manning's  rottweiler,  loose  in  the

            driveway, delayed  Lennon's pursuit  of Manning for  three to

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            five  minutes.   Once  inside  the garage,  Lennon  found and

            seized  the briefcase and its contents, inter alia:  two bags
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            of cocaine weighing 124.64 grams, various drug paraphernalia,

            a  loaded 9  millimeter handgun, and  six copper  pipe bombs.

            Lennon  did  not, however,  find  Manning  in his  subsequent

            search of the house.

                      Meanwhile,  Lussier, having ordered the raid, drove

            to the front of 151 Doyle Avenue, entered the front door, and

            proceeded  to the  basement, where  he found a  broken window

            through which Manning  had likely escaped.   One week  later,

            Manning turned himself in to the police.       

                                         II.
                                         II.
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                                      DISCUSSION
                                      DISCUSSION
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            A.  Motion for Acquittal
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                      Manning argues that there was insufficient evidence

            to  support his  conviction for  using a  destructive device1

            during  and in relation to  a drug trafficking  crime, and so

            the district  court erred in denying his motion for acquittal

            on Count II.  We review the district court's disposition of a

            motion for acquittal  de novo, viewing the evidence,  and all
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            reasonable  inferences that  may be  drawn therefrom,  in the

                                
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            1.  18  U.S.C.    921(a)(3)  defines "firearm"  to mean  "any
            destructive device."   Section 921(a)(4) defines "destructive
            device" to mean "any explosive, incendiary, or poison gas . .
            . bomb."  

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            light most favorable  to the  government.   United States  v.
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            Loder, 23 F.3d 586, 589-90 (1st Cir. 1994).
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                      Approximately  one month  after  oral arguments  in

            this case, the Supreme Court decided Bailey v. United States,
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            116 S. Ct.  501 (1995), and concluded that "use" of a firearm

            in  18 U.S.C.     924(c)(1) means  "active employment  of the

            firearm" which "includes brandishing,  displaying, bartering,

            striking with,  and most  obviously, firing or  attempting to

            fire, a  firearm."  Id. at  505, 508.  Our  careful review of
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            the  record  reveals  that  the  government's  evidence   was

            insufficient  to show "use"  under the Bailey  standard.  The
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            government  did not  present  any evidence  that Manning  had

            brandished,   displayed,   bartered,  struck   someone  with,

            fired/detonated or  attempted to  fire/detonate either  the 9

            millimeter  handgun or  the  six pipe  bombs.   The  evidence

            presented at trial  was simply that  Manning had carried  the

            briefcase  containing the  gun, pipe  bombs, drugs,  and drug

            paraphernalia into the garage of 151 Doyle Avenue and nothing

            more.

                      The  reach  of  18  U.S.C.     924(c)(1),  however,

            extends  beyond the  use  of a  firearm.   Section  924(c)(1)

            applies to any person who either "uses or carries a firearm."
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            18 U.S.C.   924(c)(1) (emphasis added).  At issue, therefore,

            is whether  the government succeeded  in presenting  evidence

            sufficient  to show  that Manning  was guilty  of  carrying a
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            firearm during and in relation to any drug trafficking crime.

            Conviction   under     924(c)(1)   requires  proof  beyond  a

            reasonable  doubt  that  Manning:  (1)  committed  the   drug

            trafficking crime of possession  with intent to distribute as

            charged in  the indictment, (2) knowingly  carried a firearm,

            and (3) did so during and in relation to the drug trafficking

            crime.   See United States  v. Wilkinson, 926  F.2d 22, 25-26
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            (1st Cir.), cert. denied, 501 U.S. 1211 (1991), and overruled
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            on other  grounds  by Bailey,  116 S.  Ct. at  509.   Because
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            Manning has not challenged the sufficiency of the evidence of

            the first element, we  restrict our analysis to the  last two

            elements and consider each in turn.

                      By  narrowing  the   interpretation  of  "use"   to

            instances of  active employment, the Bailey  Court recognized
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            that  the "carry"  prong  would take  on a  new significance.

            Accordingly, the  Court  remanded Bailey  and  its  companion
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            case, Robinson v. United States, No. 94-7492, to the District
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            of  Columbia Circuit  to  consider liability  for Bailey  and

            Robinson under the "carry" prong of   924(c)(1).  Bailey, 116
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            S.  Ct. at 509.   In Bailey  and Robinson,  the firearms were
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            found in  the trunk  of a  car and  in  a locked  trunk in  a

            bedroom closet,  respectively.   Id. at 503-04.   Determining
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            whether firearms  found in these locations  were carried will

            require  the District of Columbia Circuit  to test the limits

            of  the proper understanding of  "carry" in    924(c)(1).  We

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            need not determine the precise contours  of the "carry" prong

            here,  however,  as  Manning's  actions  meet any  reasonable

            construction of the word.  See Smith v. United States, 113 S.
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            Ct.  2050,  2054 (1993)  (noting  that words  not  defined by

            statute should be given their ordinary or common meaning).

                      The word  "carry" is variously defined  as "to move

            while supporting (as . . . in one's hands or arms)," "to move

            an  appreciable  distance without  dragging,"  and  "to bring

            along to  another place."  Webster's  Third New International
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            Dictionary  343 (1986).    Manning's alleged  actions readily
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            meet  all of these definitions.  The government presented the

            testimony of  Detective Lennon  that he saw  Manning standing

            outside his  Cherokee and in front of the garage of 151 Doyle

            Avenue, holding the briefcase; that he watched Manning, while

            holding the briefcase in his left hand, walk into the garage;

            and that minutes  later upon discovering the briefcase in the

            garage,  he opened  it  and found,  inter  alia, a  loaded  9
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            millimeter handgun  and six pipe  bombs.  A  reasonable juror

            could  easily conclude  from this  evidence that  Manning had

            carried  the handgun  and pipe  bombs.   In walking  from the

            Cherokee to  the garage  while holding  the briefcase  in his

            left  hand,  Manning  certainly  was "moving"  the  briefcase

            "while  supporting" it  in  his hand.    And if  Manning  was

            carrying  the  briefcase,  he  necessarily  was  carrying the

            contents thereof, namely, the handgun and pipe bombs.

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                      The government also  presented ample evidence  from

            which a reasonable juror  could conclude that Manning carried

            the gun and bombs "during" and  "in relation to" the crime of

            possession with intent to  distribute.  Evidence that Manning

            carried the gun and pipe bombs contemporaneously with the two

            bags of cocaine and  the drug paraphernalia readily satisfies

            the  "during" requirement.    See United  States v.  Luciano-
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            Mosquera,  63 F.3d 1142,  1151 (1st Cir.  1995) (holding that
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            gun  "carried at  a time  when the  offense was  in progress"

            constituted "during" for purposes  of   924(c)(1)).  Evidence

            that  Manning carried the gun and bombs in the same briefcase

            as  the   drugs  readily  satisfies  the   "in  relation  to"

            requirement.   Because the government presented evidence that

            could establish  each of  these elements beyond  a reasonable

            doubt,  we affirm  the district  court's denial  of Manning's

            motion for acquittal on Count II.         

            B.  Admissibility of Evidence of Uncharged Misconduct
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                      Manning argues  that the  district  court erred  by

            allowing the prosecutor to  cross-examine him about his prior

            drug dealing  and  to introduce  the  items seized  from  the

            basement of 151 Doyle Avenue.  Manning's attorney objected to

            the introduction of this evidence as impermissible "uncharged

            misconduct" evidence under  Fed. R. Evid. 404(b)  and, in the

            alternative,  unduly prejudicial  under  Fed. R.  Evid.  403.

            After reciting the standard  of review, we consider Manning's

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            testimony on cross-examination and  the items seized from the

            basement, in turn. 

                      Because the  admission of Rule  404(b) evidence  is

            committed to the sound discretion of the trial judge, we will

            reverse  on appeal  only  for abuse  of  discretion.   United
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            States v. Garcia,  983 F.2d 1160, 1172  (1st Cir. 1993).   We
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            will  reverse a district court's  Rule 403 balancing "only in

            'exceptional circumstances.'"   Id. at  1173 (quoting  United
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            States  v. Garcia-Rosa,  876 F.2d  209, 221 (1st  Cir. 1989),
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            cert. denied, 493 U.S. 1030 (1990)).
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                      On  cross-examination, the  prosecutor successfully

            elicited  testimony  from  Manning  about  his  drug  dealing

            efforts  prior to  October 7, 1991.   In  particular, Manning

            testified that he had previously  sold cocaine; that he would

            package the cocaine in  a specific type of plastic  bag; that

            he  weighed  drugs on  two  particular scales;  and  that, as

            denoted by  his  handwriting in  his  drug ledger,  he  would

            distribute 100 bags of cocaine every two days to a particular

            location.   The prosecutor also questioned  Manning about his

            use of a  pager and the source  of his drug  supply.  All  of

            this was done over the objection of Manning's attorney.  

                      Rule  404(b) provides  that  although  evidence  of

            other crimes,  wrongs, and  acts is  not admissible  to prove

            criminal propensity, it may  be admissible for other purposes

            that  do  not involve  character,  such as  proof  of intent,

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            preparation, knowledge  or absence  of mistake.   Garcia, 983
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            F.2d at 1172.  Moreover, when charges of drug trafficking are

            involved,  this  court  has  often upheld  the  admission  of

            evidence  of prior  narcotics involvement to  prove knowledge

            and intent.  See United States v. Hadfield, 918 F.2d 987, 994
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            (1st Cir.  1990) (collecting  cases), cert. denied,  500 U.S.
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            936 (1991).  Manning  was charged in Count II  with knowingly

            possessing  the two bags of cocaine in the briefcase with the

            intent  to distribute them.   Manning's  statements regarding

            his prior drug dealing are highly  probative of the knowledge

            and intent  elements  of that  offense.   The  evidence  that

            Manning had previously sold cocaine makes it more likely both

            that he was aware of the contents of the plastic  bags in the

            briefcase  and that he intended to distribute the two bags of

            cocaine.

                      Having  determined  that Manning's  statements were

            probative, we must consider whether their probative value was

            substantially outweighed by  their prejudicial effect.   Fed.

            R. Evid. 403.   The district court minimized  any prejudicial

            impact  of the prior drug dealing evidence by instructing the

            jury, contemporaneously and again  in its final instructions,

            about the proper  use of prior bad act evidence.   See United
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            States  v. Powell, 50 F.3d  94, 101 (1st  Cir. 1995) (finding
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            that  limiting  instruction  insulated   against  prejudicial

            impact); see  also, Richardson  v. Marsh,  481 U.S. 200,  206
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            (1987) (holding that reviewing court  typically presumes jury

            followed instructions).  Given the district  court's limiting

            instructions  and its  broad  discretionary power  to balance

            probative  value against  prejudicial effects, we  cannot say

            that the  district court  abused its discretion  in admitting

            the evidence of Manning's prior drug dealing.

                      Manning  also  challenges   the  district   court's

            admission  of items  such as  scales, bags,  glassine packets

            stamped "Super  Power" and  "Hot Pursuit," rubber  bands, and

            straws,  seized  from the  basement and  garage of  151 Doyle

            Avenue.  Manning's assertion,  however, that the items seized

            are  governed by  Rule  404(b) is  wide  of the  mark.   Rule

            404(b), by its very terms, excludes only extrinsic evidence--

            "evidence of other crimes,  wrongs, or acts"--whose probative

            value  exclusively  depends  upon  a forbidden  inference  of

            criminal propensity.   Hadfield, 918 F.2d  at 994.   Evidence
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            intrinsic to the crime  for which the defendant is  on trial,

            accordingly, is not governed  by Rule 404(b).  United  States
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            v. Tutiven,  40 F.3d  1, 5  (1st Cir.  1994) ("The cases  are
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            legion in which similar intrinsic circumstantial evidence has

            been  admitted   without  occasioning  either   challenge  or

            analysis under Rule 404(b)."), cert. denied, 115 S. Ct.  1391
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            (1995).  

                      The  items  seized  from  151  Doyle  Avenue   most

            certainly  qualify as  intrinsic to  the crime  of possession

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            with  intent to  distribute with  which Manning  was charged.

            During the  search on October 7, 1991, each of the items were

            found in the  basement of  151 Doyle Avenue,  save one  scale

            discovered  in the  garage.   Should a  juror have  chosen to

            believe  that Manning  occupied the  basement bedroom  of 151

            Doyle Avenue,2 the existence  of the drug paraphernalia there

            is directly  probative of  both Manning's knowledge  that the

            bags in the briefcase contained cocaine and  his intention to

            distribute  that cocaine.  See United States v. Nason, 9 F.3d
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            155,  162 (1st  Cir.  1993) (upholding  admission of  scales,

            bags,  and  baggies  seized  from motel  room  registered  to

            defendant's girlfriend  at time of defendant's  arrest on the

            marijuana charges  for which he was on  trial), cert. denied,
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            114 S. Ct. 1331 (1994).  The district court did not abuse its

            discretion in admitting the drug-paraphernalia evidence.

            C.  Request for an Expert
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                      Manning  also  complains  that  the  district court

            erred in  denying his request  for appointment of  an expert.

            The Criminal  Justice Act, 18 U.S.C.    3006A(e)(1), provides

            that  "a person who  is financially  unable to  obtain .  . .

            expert  . . . services necessary for an adequate defense" may

            obtain them  after demonstrating in an ex  parte hearing that
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            2.  The government presented evidence  from which the  jurors
            could draw such a  conclusion.  For instance,  the government
            introduced  pager and  veterinary  bills  addressed to  Trent
            Manning,  151 Doyle  Avenue and  police testimony  that these
            bills were found in the basement bedroom area.  

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            such services are "necessary."  A  district court's denial of

            a request  for such services is reviewed only for an abuse of

            discretion.   United States v. Mateos-Sanchez,  864 F.2d 232,
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            240 (1st Cir. 1988);  United States v. Fosher, 590  F.2d 381,
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            384 (1st Cir. 1979).

                      At the  hearing on  this issue,  Manning's attorney

            requested the expert services  of a retired Providence police

            officer  who  purportedly  would  have  testified  about  the

            inadequacies   in   the   Providence    Police   Department's

            investigation of  Manning's case.  In  particular, the expert

            would  have  highlighted the  police's  failure  to test  the

            broken glass of  the basement window for  fingerprints and to

            trace the origins of the pipe bomb components.  

                      Generally,   expert   services   have  been   found

            necessary when the proffered  expert testimony was pivotal to

            the  indigent defendant's defense.   See  Mateos-Sanchez, 864
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            F.2d  at  239-40.    For instance,  courts  have  appointed a

            fingerprint  expert when  a  fingerprint, alleged  to be  the

            defendant's,  was  the  primary   means  of  connecting   the

            defendant to the crime, see United States v. Durant, 545 F.2d
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            823,  827  (2d  Cir.  1976),  and  a  psychiatrist  when  the

            defendant's sanity at the  time of the offense was  at issue,

            see  United States v. Williams,  998 F.2d 258,  264 (5th Cir.
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            1993), cert.  denied,  114  S.  Ct. 940  (1994).    Manning's
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            proffered  expert testimony  on  the adequacy  of the  police

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            investigation, however, was not  critical or necessary to his

            defense.  

                      Manning   was  charged   with  using   or  carrying

            destructive  devices  during  and   in  relation  to  a  drug

            trafficking  crime.    Whether Manning  had  manufactured the

            bombs was not  at issue.   The proffered  testimony that  the

            police failed to trace the bomb components, therefore, cannot

            be  said  to be  central to  Manning's  defense of  Count II.

            Given  the  eyewitness  testimony  of  Manning  carrying  the

            briefcase and all the physical evidence found in the basement

            and garage,  including a scale with  Manning's fingerprint on

            it,  the   expert  testimony  on  the   police's  failure  to

            fingerprint  the broken  glass  from the  basement window  is

            likewise peripheral to Manning's defense of Count II.3   

                      Moreover,  as the  district court  noted, Manning's

            proffered expert testimony about  whether or not a particular

            police act  or  omission was  good  police practice  had  the

            potential of  confusing the jury and  diverting its attention

            from its task of assessing the  adequacy of the prosecution's

            evidence on the issue of guilt.  Upon  these facts, we cannot

            say that the district court's denial of Manning's request for

                                
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            3.  We also  note that Manning's  attorney was able  to place
            these alleged  investigative shortcomings before  the jury on
            cross-examination of the officers.

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            appointment  of  the proffered  expert  was an  abuse  of its

            discretion.4         

            D.  Jury Nullification
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                      At  two points  during  trial,  Manning's  attorney

            attempted  to  alert  the  jury  to  the  potential  term  of

            imprisonment Manning  would face  if convicted on  Count II.5

            During  Manning's  direct  examination,   Manning's  attorney

            requested the  court's permission to ask  Manning whether, in

            October  of 1991, he was aware of the substantial prison term

            facing someone  found using or carrying  a destructive device

            during  and in  relation to  a drug  trafficking crime.   The

            district court denied the  request as irrelevant, noting that

            sentencing matters are entrusted to the judge, not the  jury.

            At the  close of all  the evidence, Manning's  attorney again

            approached the court at sidebar, this time seeking permission

            to  appeal, in his closing  argument, to the  jury's power of

            nullification  by  informing  the  jury of  the  prison  term

            Manning  would face if convicted  of Count II.   The district

            court also denied this request, invoking the rationale it had

            used earlier.         

                                
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            4.  This is not to  say, however, that expert opinion  on the
            adequacy of a police investigation  can never be necessary to
            an indigent defendant's defense nor do we so rule.

            5.  Under   924(c)(1), using or carrying a destructive device
            carries a mandatory thirty-year prison term.

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                      Because we reverse Manning's conviction on Count II

            for  jury coercion, see part  II.G. infra, we  need not reach
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            this  issue.   We  nonetheless  offer  the following  cursory

            analysis  of  the  second  argument  as  guidance.    We have

            consistently held that a district  court may not instruct the

            jury  as  to its  power  to nullify.   See  United  States v.
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            Sepulveda, 15 F.3d  1161, 1190 (1st Cir. 1993), cert. denied,
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            114  S. Ct. 2714 (1994); United States v. DesMarais, 938 F.2d
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            347,  350 (1st  Cir.  1991); Garcia-Rosa,  876  F.2d at  226;
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            United States v. Boardman, 419 F.2d 110, 116 (1st Cir. 1969),
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            cert.  denied, 397 U.S. 991 (1970).  An attorney's attempt to
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            achieve the same  end indirectly, by arguing  the severity of

            the punishment to  the jury, is  equally impermissible.   See
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            United  States v.  Calhoun, 49  F.3d 231,  236 n.6  (6th Cir.
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            1995) (holding that  a defendant  did not have  the right  to

            inform the jury  of possible  punishment or of  its power  to

            nullify a law  or sentence);  cf. United States  v. Coast  of
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            Maine  Lobster Co.,  538  F.2d 899,  903-04  (1st Cir.  1976)
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            (holding  that  prosecutor's  televised  comment  that  white

            collar  criminal sentences  are  too  small, communicated  to

            jurors  of  ongoing  white  collar  criminal  trial,  created

            reversible error).

            E.  Motion to Suppress
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                      Before his  first trial, Manning  moved to suppress

            the evidence found during  the October 7, 1991 search  of 151

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            Doyle Avenue.  After a hearing, the district court denied the

            motion.  Manning  later objected  to the evidence  as it  was

            offered at trial and then raised the objection on appeal.  We

            did  not  address  the  suppression  issue,  however,  having

            ordered  a  retrial on  other grounds.    On appeal  from his

            second trial, Manning again asks us to consider  the legality

            of  the search.  This  time, Manning had  neither renewed his

            suppression  motion  nor  registered  his  objection  to  the

            admission  of the  evidence below.   While  Manning maintains

            that this was unnecessary because the  decisions of the first

            trial  judge are the law of the case, the government contends

            that his suppression arguments are waived.  We need not enter

            this  thicket,  however,   because  assuming  arguendo   that
                                                          ________

            Manning's arguments  are preserved,  we find that  they still

            fail.

                      Manning attacks the district court's denial  of his

            suppression motion  on two grounds.   First, Manning contends

            that  the affidavit  supporting the  search warrant  does not

            establish  probable   cause,  citing  the  staleness  of  the

            information regarding the confidential informant's controlled

            buy,  the  dearth  of   information  about  that  informant's

            credibility, and  a general lack of detail.   Second, Manning

            contests the district court's refusal to conduct an in camera
                                                                __ ______

            proceeding  to  test  the  reliability  of  the  confidential

            informant ("CI")  regarding  the  controlled  buy.    Manning

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            argues that an in camera review was necessary to his mounting
                           __ ______

            a  Franks  challenge6  to   the  accuracy  of  the  officer's
               ______

            statements in  the affidavit supporting  the search  warrant.

            After summarizing the affidavit, we consider Manning's second

            claim first.

                      On October 7, 1991,  to support his application for

            a  warrant  to search  151  Doyle  Avenue, Detective  Lussier

            attested  to  the  following  facts.   "During  the  past few

            weeks," while Lussier was investigating marijuana trafficking

            at 151 Doyle Avenue, Manning had used keys to enter 151 Doyle

            Avenue  and appeared to be  living there.   While Manning was

            home,  several people had come to  the rear door of the house

            and  stayed for  only a  short time.   Lussier  took numerous

            phone  complaints about  narcotics trafficking  at 151  Doyle

            Avenue.    A  CI,  who  had  bought  marijuana  from  Manning

            previously,  made a controlled buy  from Manning at 151 Doyle

            Avenue.   Before the buy,  Lussier searched the  CI for money

            and contraband, gave the CI money, and witnessed the CI enter

            the rear of the house.

                                
            ____________________

            6.  Under Franks v. Delaware, 438  U.S. 154, 155-56 (1978), a
                      ______    ________
            defendant   may   overcome   the   presumption   of  validity
            surrounding  affidavits supporting search warrants and obtain
            an   evidentiary   hearing,  if   he  "makes   a  substantial
            preliminary  showing  that  a false  statement  knowingly and
            intentionally, or with reckless  disregard for the truth, was
            included  by the affiant in the warrant affidavit, and if the
            allegedly  false statement  is  necessary to  the finding  of
            probable cause."  

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                      We   recognize  that   when  an   affidavit  relies

            primarily on information  provided by a CI, a  defendant will

            lack  the information needed to  make a Franks  showing.  See
                                                    ______            ___

            United States v. Higgins, 995 F.2d 1, 3 (1st Cir.  1993).  In
            _____________    _______

            such cases,  where the  defendant challenges the  accuracy of

            the  affidavit  but  has  failed  to  make  the  "substantial

            preliminary  showing"  required  by  Franks,  the  court  may
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            conduct an  in camera interview of  the officer-affiant, and,
                        __ ______

            if  necessary, of  the  informant.    See  United  States  v.
                                                  ___  ______________

            Southard, 700 F.2d  1, 10-11  (1st Cir.),  cert. denied,  464
            ________                                   _____ ______

            U.S. 823  (1983).  A district court is not required to do so,

            however;  the decision  whether  an in  camera proceeding  is
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            needed  to  test  the  officer-affiant's7  credibility  rests

            entirely  with the  district  court.   See  United States  v.
                                                   ___  _____________

            Jackson,  918 F.2d  236, 241 (1st  Cir. 1990).   We  review a
            _______

            district court's denial  of a defendant's  request for an  in
                                                                       __

            camera proceeding for abuse of discretion.  See United States
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            v. Valerio, 48 F.3d  58, 62-63 (1st Cir. 1995);  Higgins, 995
               _______                                       _______

            F.2d at 3.

                      Manning argues  that he  presented evidence  at the

            suppression  hearing  sufficient   to  contradict   Lussier's

            statements in the affidavit  and thereby require the district

            court  to question his  credibility.  Specifically, Manning's

                                
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            7.  Franks only  allows impeachment  "of the affiant,  not of
                ______
            any nongovernmental informant."  Franks, 438 U.S. at 171.
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            mother testified that she was home all day on October 7, 1991

            and that  no sale of drugs could have taken place in her home

            without her knowledge.   Manning's attorney told the district

            court that, although the affidavit does not specify the  date

            of the controlled buy, he recalled that a police officer, not

            Lussier, had  testified at  the preliminary  examination that

            the buy took  place on  October 7, 1991.   Manning  concludes

            from these two facts  that the controlled buy could  not have

            taken place on October  7, 1991, and therefore, that  Lussier

            must have lied.      

                      As  the  district  court  recognized,  however, two

            problems inhere in this reasoning.  First, the affidavit does

            not provide that  the controlled buy  occurred on October  7,

            1991.8   Second,  even if  it did,  Mrs. Manning's  testimony

            does not "preclude at all the possibility that Officer .  . .

            Lussier is telling  the truth."   Mrs. Manning admitted  that

            Manning was at 151  Doyle Avenue for at least some  period of

            time on  October 7, 1991, and  she did not claim  that he was

            never  out of  her  sight.    Given  the  tenuous  basis  for

            Manning's  challenge  to  Lussier's  veracity,  the  district

            court's denial of  Manning's request for an  in camera review
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            was well within its discretion.

                                
            ____________________

            8.  We  find  no clear  error  in  the district  court's  not
            accepting Manning's attorney's  recollection that an  unnamed
            police  officer,  not  present  during  the  controlled  buy,
            testified  at  the  preliminary  examination  that  the   buy
            occurred on October 7, 1991.

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                      Having so decided, we quickly  dispose of Manning's

            challenge to the validity  of the search warrant for  lack of

            probable cause.   Assuming  arguendo that Manning  is correct
                                        ________

            about the warrant's invalidity, we nonetheless agree with the

            district court's conclusion that  the "good faith"  exception

            to  the exclusionary  rule  applies here.   United  States v.
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            Leon, 468 U.S.  897, 913 (1984).  In  Leon, the Supreme Court
            ____                                  ____

            held  that,  with limited  exception,  the  exclusionary rule

            should not  apply when police  officers reasonably rely  on a

            warrant that subsequently is  determined to be invalid.   468

            U.S.  at 922.   Upon  de novo  review, see  United States  v.
                                  __ ____          ___  _____________

            Zapata, 18 F.3d 971, 975  (1st Cir. 1994) (reviewing district
            ______

            court's   "ultimate   constitutional   conclusions"    in   a

            suppression order de novo),  we find that Lussier's affidavit
                              __ ____

            had  ample indicia  of  probable cause  "'to render  official

            belief  in its existence'" reasonable.  Leon, 468 U.S. at 923
                                                    ____

            (quoting  Brown  v. Illinois,  422  U.S.  590, 610-11  (1975)
                      _____     ________

            (Powell, J.,  concurring in  part)).  Accordingly,  we affirm

            the district court's  denial of  the motion  to suppress  the

            items seized from 151 Doyle Avenue. 

            F.  Jury Instructions
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                      Manning   raises   two  challenges   to   the  jury

            instruction  defining  the offense  of  using  or carrying  a

            firearm  during and in relation to  a drug trafficking crime.

            First,  he argues that the  district court failed to instruct

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            the jury that the destructive devices must have actually been

            used.   Second, he claims  that the court  failed to instruct

            that  the  destructive  devices  must  have  facilitated  the

            charged crime  of possession  with intent to  distribute, and

            not some other past or future drug trafficking crime.  

                      Our reversal  of Manning's  conviction on  Count II

            for  jury coercion,  see part  II.G. infra,  however, renders
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            consideration  of the  legality  of the  court's    924(c)(1)

            instruction unnecessary.9

            G.  Responses to Jury's Inquiry
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                      Manning contests the  district court's responses to

            a specific  jury query on two grounds:  (1) that the district

            court's response was tantamount to  a directive that the jury

            must reach  a verdict on Count II,  and (2) that the district

            court did not cure this harm  by polling the jurors --  after

            they had reached a verdict but before the verdict was taken -

            -  on whether  they had  felt compelled  to reach  a verdict.

            Mindful  of the  district  court's broad  discretion in  "the

                                
            ____________________

            9.  Although its   924(c)(1) instruction initially made clear
            that the  predicate drug trafficking crime  was possession of
            cocaine with intent to  distribute it as charged in  Count I,
            in later instructions, the  district court stated that "there
            must  be proof that the firearm was  connected to or played a
            role  in  the  commission   of  a  drug  trafficking  crime."
                                            _
            (Emphasis  added).   In future  instructions, we  caution the
            district court to endeavor to avoid generic references  to "a
            drug  trafficking crime"  when  referring to  the  particular
            predicate offense.  

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            giving, or withholding, of a supplemental instruction, or the

            contents of it if  given," United States v. Parent,  954 F.2d
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            23, 25 (1st Cir. 1992), we nonetheless find that the district

            court  transgressed the  bounds of  its discretion  under the

            unusual  set of  circumstances that  unfolded after  the jury

            retired to  deliberate.  See  United States  v. Akitoye,  923
                                     ___  _____________     _______

            F.2d  221,  227 (1st  Cir.  1991)  (reviewing  for  abuse  of

            discretion district court's denial  of jury's request to have

            testimony read back).  We outline the relevant history.  

                      The jury  began its deliberations  in earnest10  on

            the morning  of November 22,  1994.   After a few  hours, the

            jury sent the court a note, asking "Which scale  was found in

            the bedroom  and which  scale  had the  fingerprint?"   After

            consulting  the parties,  the district  court responded,  "It

            would  not be  proper for me  to tell  you what  the evidence

            establishes or does not establish.  That's a matter that only

            you   can  determine."     Later,   the  jury   sent  another

            communication  to the  court, this  time stating, "We  do not

            have an [sic] unanimous  decision on Count Number Two.   Must

            we  continue to discuss  until we have?   It is apparent that

            we'll  not change our minds."   At a  chamber conference with

            both  counsel,  the court  proposed  the  following response:

                                
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            10.  The court submitted  the case to  the jury the  previous
            evening.    After   deliberating  for  approximately  fifteen
            minutes, however, the jury chose to go home and reconvene the
            next morning.

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            "Would reading any portion of the testimony to you assist you

            in reaching  a decision?  If so, please tell me what portions

            of testimony  of which witness  you would like."   Perceiving

            deadlock  on Count  II,  Manning's attorney  objected to  the

            court's  response  and   moved  for  a  mistrial.     In  the

            alternative, he  proposed that  the response advise  the jury

            that  it was not  obliged to reach  a verdict.   The district

            court denied  the motion,  rejected the suggestion,  and sent

            its suggested response.

                      The jury then informed the court, "We would like to

            hear testimony from  Officer Lennon and Agent Lennon."   Over

            Manning's continued objection, the  court replied, "Is  their

            [sic] any particular portion or portions of the testimony  of

            Officer Lennon or Agent Lennon that would be helpful to you?"

            After receiving  no reply, the  district court had  the clerk

            ask the  jurors whether they wished  to continue deliberating

            or go home  and return the next  day.  Thereafter, the  court

            received a  note stating  that a  verdict  had been  reached.

            Apparently concerned about the effect of its second response,

            the district  court, before  taking the verdict,  queried the

            jury collectively in open court as follows:

                      I just wanted to  make sure before I even
                      ask  about the  verdict whether  there is
                      anybody here who is under  the impression
                      that you were required  to reach an [sic]
                      unanimous decision.  If you didn't, you'd
                      be  kept here until you did.  I wanted to
                      make   sure   nobody   is    under   that
                      impression,  had the  feeling you  had to

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                      reach  an agreement because you felt that
                      you would  be kept here until  you did or
                      because you  felt  that you  had  to  all
                      agree in  order to be released  from jury
                      service.   Is there  any of you  that had
                      that feeling?

            No  juror responded to the  inquiry.  The  jury then returned

            its verdict of guilty on all counts. 

                      This  court   has  recognized  that   when  a  jury

            indicates that  it  is  deadlocked,  a  supplementary  charge

            instructing it to return  and attempt to reach a  verdict may

            prejudice a  defendant.   See United  States v.  Angiulo, 485
                                      ___ ______________     _______

            F.2d 37, 39  (1st Cir. 1973).   For instance, "such  a charge

            may cause a  jury to  agree when they  might otherwise  never

            have  come to  agreement,  thereby losing  for the  defendant

            whatever  safeguard he  might  have had  in  a hung  jury,  a

            declaration  of  mistrial,  and  either  a  new  trial  or  a

            subsequent decision by the prosecutor not to retry the case."

            Id.    Accordingly, we  have  instructed  district courts  to
            ___

            include three  elements in  any such supplementary  charge to

            ameliorate its  prejudicial effect.   Id.   A  district court
                                                  ___

            should instruct jurors in substance that (1) members  of both

            the  majority   and  the  minority   should  reexamine  their

            positions, (2) a jury has the right to fail to agree, and (3)

            the burden of proving guilt beyond a reasonable doubt remains

            with the government.  Id.  
                                  ___

                      Having indicated  that it  was deadlocked  on Count

            II, the jury in the present case proceeded to inquire whether

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            it  was obliged to reach a verdict  on Count II.  Rather than

            answering this  pointed question "yes" or  "no," the district

            court responded with a question:   "Would reading any portion

            of the testimony to  you assist you in reaching  a decision?"

            This response not  only failed to discourage  the notion that

            the jury was bound to continue to deliberate indefinitely, it

            suggested the opposite, i.e.,  that a jury is required  to do
                                    ____

            so.11   Having asked whether continued  deliberation on Count

            II  was necessary, and being offered a review of testimony in

            response, a rational lay  jury could reasonably have inferred

            that  the court wanted it  to reach a  verdict, regardless of

            whether it could do so in good conscience.  

                      Having  sent the  jurors  an  improper signal,  the

            district  court   did  not   dispel  this   misimpression  by

            collectively  asking the  jury  in open  court, after  it had

            reached its  verdict, whether that verdict  had been coerced.

            At  that  point,  the  dynamics  had  fundamentally  changed.

            Jurors who may have  been hold-outs earlier had now  voted to

            convict.   Asking  such a  juror to  admit before  his fellow

            jurors  that he  had voted  against his  will was  asking too

            much.  Moreover, the district court never informed the jurors

                                
            ____________________

            11.  Providing a  modified Allen charge at  this juncture, on
                                       _____
            the other hand, would have informed the jurors that they need
            not surrender  an honest conviction  for the mere  purpose of
            returning a verdict and  at the same time encouraged  them to
            try  to reach  a  verdict,  fully  aware  that  the  onus  of
            reexamination is  not  on the  minority  alone and  that  the
            burden of proof remains with the government.

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            that if  any of them  did admit to  being coerced,  the court

            would  take their verdicts on Counts I and III, discharge the

            jury,  and retry Count II  before another jury.   The unhappy

            prospect  of being  sent back  to the  jury room  for further

            deliberations may also have  prevented jurors from  admitting

            coercion.  Because we cannot say that the verdict on Count II

            was  not the product of coercion, we vacate the conviction on

            Count II and remand for a new trial.              

                                         III.
                                         III.
                                         ____

                                      CONCLUSION
                                      CONCLUSION
                                      __________

                      We  affirm Manning's  convictions and  sentences on
                          ______

            Counts I and III, vacate his conviction and sentence on Count
                              ______

            II, and remand Count II for a new trial.
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