Government of the Virgin Islands v. Roy Sylvester Parrott

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• finding defendant denied right to fair trial when three of the jurors that convicted the defendant had also been on jury that convicted him less than one month earlier for possession of firearm
• finding defendant denied right to fair trial when three of the jurors that convicted the defendant had also been on jury that convicted him less than one month earlier for possession of firearm
• “absent waiver it violates the Sixth Amendment guarantee of an impartial jury to use a juror who sat in a previous case in which the same defendant was convicted of a similar offense, at least if the cases are proximate in time”
• remanding for concerns about juiy impartiality
• remanding for concerns about jury impartiality

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).