United States of America v. Donald Albin Blom

How courts have described this case

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• defining the second tier of the analysis as determining “whether the jury-selection process established an inference of actual prejudice”
• affirming the district court’s refusal to strike a juror for bias when the “court and counsel made the proper inquiry, and the issue is essentially one of demeanor and credibility”
• stating, in dictum, that seizure of ammunition would have been appropriate if the officers who prepared the search affidavits that included defendant’s felon status were present at the seizure
• affirming the district court’s refusal to strike a juror for bias when the “court and counsel made the proper inquiry, and the issue is essentially one of demeanor and credibility”
• “reject[ing] [any] suggestion that a police officer with no knowledge of a citizen’s criminal history may constitutionally seize firearms or ammunition without a warrant, so long as the citizen turns out to be, in hindsight, a convicted felon”
• also considering whether the coverage was extensive and whether that coverage was “inflammatory or accusatory”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).