United States v. Dennis Frederick Hoker

How courts have described this case

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• concluding that “[n]o amount of boiler plate instructions . . . could be expected to erase” the effect of the judge’s active questioning of various witnesses
• describing as “trivial” trial court’s decision to ask prosecutor whether he would “object to hearsay”
• \The position of a trial judge carries such overpowering weight before a jury that we can not be certain that the verdict was that of the jury uninfluenced by a desire to bring in a verdict calculated to please the judge.\
• \The position of a trial judge carries such overpowering weight before a jury that we can not be certain that the verdict was that of the jury uninflu- enced by a desire to bring in a verdict calculated to please the judge.\

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