· 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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