United States v. Isreal Hawkins, Jr.

How courts have described this case

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• holding that the erroneous admission of an exhibit was harmless “in light of the strength of the government’s case against [defendant] and the safeguards implemented to minimize the prejudicial effect of the exhibit.”
• applying both tests when evaluating whether co-defendants’ defense theories were “irreconcilable or prejudicially antagonistic”
• “A defense is irreconcilable when the jury, to believe the core of one defense, must necessarily disbelieve the core of another.”
• “[I]t was reasonable to infer that Juror No. 2 did not lie about her relationship with [the government witness] but instead simply did not recognize his name or face.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).