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063111P.pdf   03/14/2007  USA  v.  Ricky Wayne Meads
   U.S. Court of Appeals Case No:  06-3111
   U.S. District Court for the Western District of Missouri - Springfield   
   [PUBLISHED] [Melloy, Author, with Wollman and Beam, Circuit Judges]
   Criminal case - Criminal law. Evidence did not support defendant's
   proposed "mere presence" instruction, and the district court did not
   abuse its discretion in refusing to give it; even if the evidence would
   have supported the giving of the instruction, it was not error to refuse
   it as the other instructions adequately covered the substance of the mere
   presence instruction.