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Eleventh Circuit· 12/30/1997

United States v. Francis

Citations

  • 131 F.3d 1452
  • 48 Fed. R. Serv. 574
  • 1997 U.S. App. LEXIS 36362
  • 1997 WL 794403

How courts have described this case

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

  • explaining that, in order to establish prejudice, a defendant must show “that the jury was unable to make an individualized guilt determination for each defendant”
  • explaining that “cautionary instructions to the jury to consider the evidence separately are presumed to guard adequately against prejudice.” (quotation marks omitted)
  • noting that Rule 1006 allows a District Court to admit summary evidence, where, in the court's discretion, it would be \inconvenient or unnecessarily time-consuming\ to review the full evidence
  • “The district court minimized any possible prejudice by in- structing the jury to consider the evidence against [each defendant] separately.”
  • “Rule 1006 allows the district court to admit . . . summaries as evidence [when], in the court’s discretion, it would be inconvenient or unnecessarily time- consuming to [review all of the writings, recordings, or photographs].”
  • “Rule 1006 allows the district court to admit . . . summaries as evidence [when], in the court’s discretion, it would be inconvenient or unnecessarily time- consuming to [review all of the writings, recordings, or photographs].”

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Judges: Dubina, Hill, Gibson

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