Kesley v. United States

How courts have described this case

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

• impugning jurors' integrity by accusing them of neglecting their oaths by failing to reach a verdict
• judge’s statement that “it is apparent to the court that some of you have forgotten that part of the charge of the court as to your oaths as jurors,” and that “[i]t does not seem to me that there is very much doubt as far as the facts are concerned.”
• “The issue here is whether venue was proven where there was no finding by the jury that at least one overt act or the conspiratorial agreement occurred in Minnesota . . . . Some finding by the jury on this issue should have been required.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).