United States v. James R. Lord, Jr., Gerald J. Yagy, and Gerhardt J. Schwartz

How courts have described this case

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• holding that a defendant’s pre-arraignment confession was voluntary
• polling not required if information disseminated was “clearly innocuous” or possibility of jury exposure was “remote”
• polling not required if information disseminated was \clearly innocuous\ or possibility of jury exposure was \remote\
• defendant, “[h]aving been arrested three times prior to the occasion at issue, . . was familiar with his rights”; also, defendant read and signed “standard ‘advice of rights’ form and a waiver form”
• trial court \erred in relying solely on repetitive admonitions\ when the circumstances created a strong likelihood of jury exposure to prejudicial material
• in camera individual interrogation of juror exposed to prejudicial publicity during trial required

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).