United States v. James M.L. Combs (93-1746) Jerry Hilary Snow (93-1747)

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• stating that the district court has a duty to \clear up uncertainties which the jury brings to its attention\ and to fairly respond to the jury's inquiries without creating prejudice
• holding that although the district court erred in failing to assemble the parties and the jury in the courtroom in order to render supplemental instructions, the instructions were legally correct and therefore the error did not result in a “grave miscarriage of justice.”
• finding harmless error where the district court gave a legally correct, inconsequential response to a jury question without consulting the lawyers

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).