United States v. John E. Scales

How courts have described this case

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• stating that “the rule is clear that the trial judge has discretion to submit the indictment to the jury in a criminal case,” but only “as long as limiting instructions are given”
• explaining that “a summary [is improper under Rule 611 if it] present[s] incompetent facts”
• stating that “the rule is clear that the trial judge has discretion to submit the indictment to the jury in a criminal case,” but only “as long as limiting instructions are given”
• noting that Rule 1006 does not require it to be literally impossible to examine the underlying records, but rather permits a summary to be used when understanding multiple exhibits would be difficult without a chart
• reviewing the district court’s decision to read aloud and provide copies of the indictment to the jury for an abuse of discretion
• purpose of summary witness is simply to aid the jury in examination of evidence already admitted

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).