Federal Case

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• holding that Allen charge given by court was coercive and required a new trial
• holding that Allen charge given by court was coercive and required a new trial
• noting that “although the Court mentioned both the majority and minority jurors, the instruction clearly portrayed the minority jurors as holding less intelligent or reasonable views than the majority jurors”
• noting that “although the Court mentioned both the majority and minority jurors, the instruction clearly portrayed the minority jurors as holding less intelligent or reasonable views than the majority jurors”
• discussing our invocation of supervisory power to prohibit certain jury instructions

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).