United States v. Frederick Kakos

How courts have described this case

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

• upholding conviction on single count that charged two offenses where, based on trial evidence, “[tjhere [was] .,. no risk that the jury was not unanimous in its belief that Defendant [committed one offense and not the other]”
• “Because defendant cannot demonstrate prejudice, he cannot show plain error, and we need not consider whether the indictment was duplicitous.” (footnote omitted)
• “a verdict rendered by a less-than-unanimous jury violates a defendant’s Sixth Amendment rights by a harm that arises from the trial itself.”
• summarily resolving jury instruction question along with duplicitous question when the defendant “does not suggest any reason why a special unanimity instruction was necessary that is independent of [the] argument that the indictment was duplicitous”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).