· 7/11/1996
United States v. Eric Boyd
Citations
- 86 F.3d 719
How courts have described this case
Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.
- reasoning that the decision to make a preemptory challenge is not as easily comprehensible to a lay person and thus is reserved for the attorney
- reasoning that the decision to make a preemptory challenge is not as easily comprehensible to a lay person and thus is reserved for the attorney
- reasoning that, aside from the four fundamental decisions enumerated by the Supreme Court in Jones, all other trial decisions are strategic decisions reserved for counsel
- “[the] steps the court takes at the defendant’s behest are not reversible, because they are not error”
- aside from the four fundamental decisions enumerated by the Supreme Court in Jones, all other trial decisions are strategic decisions that counsel must make
- the “steps the court takes at the defendant’s behest are not reversible, because they are not error”
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Judges: Easterbrook, Kanne, Wood
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