United States v. Gary D. Lee

How courts have described this case

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• affirming trial court’s acceptance of verdict with appended note requesting leniency 9226 HOYLE v. ADA COUNTY where the polled jurors, unlike in Cook, “indicated their agreement with the guilty verdict without equivocation or qualification whatsoever”
• “A trial court may not accept a verdict if it is defective but must either direct the jury to retire for further deliberation or declare a mistrial.”
• jury’s plea for the “Court to exercise extreme leniency” in sentencing the defendant was only a recommendation that did not affect the validity of the verdict and may be regarded as surplusage
• “[A] verdict must be unqualified and unambiguous,” and “[a] trial court may not accept a verdict if it is defective but must either direct the jury to retire for further deliberation or declare a mistrial.”

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