Carol v. Madison Plaza Apartments Corp.

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• vacating the jury’s 50 gram finding because the government only offered an FBI agent’s testimony concerning the range of purity of methamphetamine previously purchased in the area by the FBI
• “[A] mistrial is appropriate only where there has been so much prejudice that an instruction is unlikely to cure it.”
• “A decision to not declare a mistrial will be reversed only if the improper comment, viewed in the context of the entire trial, more likely than not materially affected the verdict.”
• “When the court strikes testimony and gives . . . an instruction [to disregard it], there is a strong presumption that the jury has followed the court’s instruction.” (alterations in original) (internal quotation marks omitted)
• “The Double Jeopardy Clause forbids a second trial ... ”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).