United States v. Delroy Lewin, A/K/A Tony, United States of America v. Oral Wayne Taylor

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• upholding district court’s allowance of juror-inspired questions where the questioning was not “allowed to become disruptive or abusive”
• telling identifying officers that photo spread contained photographs of defendants rendered process impermissibly suggestive
• the court recognized \considerable merit\ in appellant's argument that juror questioning was disruptive, invited speculation and \distorted the role of the jury in the adversarial process\
• in-court identification following impermissibly suggestive photo spread is nevertheless admissible if the identification is reliable
• \[The court] does not condone the practice of inviting juror questions.\
• because jury questions were specific and factual in nature, merely sought clarification of previous testimony, and were not addressed to any of defendants, the trial court did not abuse its discretion in permitting jurors to question witnesses

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