United States v. Anthony Provenzano, Stephen Andretta, and Thomas Andretta

How courts have described this case

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• observing that “statements made to those who are not involved in the conspiracy are not ‘in furtherance’ of it”
• stating that it is a rare case in which adverse pretrial publicity will create a presumption of prejudice that overrides the jurors’ assurance that they can be impartial
• rejecting a fair trial argument based upon jury members’ knowledge of certain terms such as “Mafia,” “gangster,” and “organized crime” used in the media to refer to the defendant’s case
• “Examination of the record reveals that counsel vigorously safeguarded appellants’ interests, to the extent of insisting on 5 See May v. State, 97 Wis. 2d 175, 183-184, 293 N.W.2d 478, (1980
• marshal discovered sequestered juror smoking marijuana during early morning hours

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).