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This document summarizes a United States Court of Appeals case from 1996 where Richard Simmons, a former United States Customs Inspector, was convicted of accepting bribes. The summary discusses that Simmons appealed the conviction based on issues with the jury instructions regarding expert witness testimony. The Court of Appeals found that while the jury instructions could have been more clear, when viewed as a whole they did not direct the jury to uncritically accept the expert testimony. The Court also f

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