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· 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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