· 10/1/1985
United States v. Benjamin Bonam
Citations
- 772 F.2d 1449
- 1985 U.S. App. LEXIS 23416
How courts have described this case
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- stating that announce- ment of verdict 90 minutes after instruction did not raise sus- picion of coercion
- stating that announce- ment of verdict 90 minutes after instruction did not raise sus- picion of coercion
- holding one-and-a-half-hour post-Allen deliberation period “was not an immediate post-charge guilty verdict nor was the verdict rendered in such a short period of time as to raise a suspicion of coercion”
- finding ninety minutes of post-charge deliberation adequate \given the simple nature of the issue presented\
- finding no coercion with just over one day of total deliberation, one-and-a-half hours of which came after Allen charge
- jury deliberation of one and one-half hours between supplemental charge and verdict did not demonstrate coercion
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Judges: Hug, Boochever, George
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