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· 6/6/1977

United States v. Franklin Delano Gipson

Citations

  • 553 F.2d 453
  • 1977 U.S. App. LEXIS 13078

How courts have described this case

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

  • \Requiring twelve jurors to convict a defendant does little to insure that his right to a unanimous verdict is protected unless this prerequisite of jury consensus as to the defendant's course of action is also required.\
  • “Requiring twelve jurors to convict a defendant does little to insure that his right to a unanimous verdict is protected unless this prerequisite of jury consensus as to the defendant’s course of action is also required.”
  • instructing jury to convict defendant upon finding he received, concealed, stored, bartered, sold or disposed of stolen property deprived defendant of unanimous verdict because the first three acts are conceptually distinct from the last three acts
  • \Requiring twelve jurors to convict a defendant does little to insure that his right to a unanimous verdict is protected unless this prerequisite of jury consensus as to the defendant's course of action is also required.\
  • actions are conceptually indistinct when they are interrelated or when they cannot be characterized separately from each other
  • actions are conceptually indistinct when they are interrelated or when they cannot be characterized separately from each other

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Judges: Wisdom, Clark, Roney

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