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· 10/13/1969

United States v. John Fioravanti, Nicholas Panaccione, and Angelo Pepe, Nicholas Panaccione

Citations

  • 412 F.2d 407

How courts have described this case

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  • finding impermissibly coercive a supplemental jury instruction telling jurors who held the minority viewpoint to reconsider their position
  • criticizing the use of supplemental charges to “blast a hung jury into a ver diet”
  • finding impermissibly coercive a supplemental jury instruction telling jurors who held the minority viewpoint to reconsider their position
  • exercising the court’s supervisory power over the federal district courts to prohibit a court from issuing charges to a potentially deadlocked jury that they, especially the dissenting jurors, should make additional efforts to come to a consensus
  • where injection of inadmissible evidence is attributable to action of defense, introduction does not constitute reversible error
  • a defendant has no right to discover the minutia of the government’s evidence or the manner in which it will be used

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Judges: Seitz, Aldisert, Stahl

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