Kevin Smalls v. Wilfredo Batista, Superintendent, Marcy Correctional Facility

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• finding coercion even though “judge never singled out either the minority or the majority” in the instruction
• “[A] necessary component of any Allen-type charge requires the trial judge to admonish the jurors not to surrender their own conscientiously held beliefs.”
• “[A] necessary component of any Allen-type charge requires the trial judge to admonish the jurors not to surrender their own conscientiously held beliefs.”

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