United States v. John Fiorilla, at No. 87-5445. United States of America v. Mary Fiorilla, at No. 87-5446

How courts have described this case

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• noting that “[bjefore deliberations resumed the next day, the trial judge delivered a cautionary instruction asking the jurors to carefully weigh and consider the views of their fellow jurors”
• declining to apply Brasfield's \ per se reversal\ rule and favoring \a rule vesting discretion in the trial court\
• finding “a lack of coercion ... demonstrated by this record” and accordingly “finding] no abuse of discretion”
• finding \a lack of coercion . . . demonstrated by this record\ and accordingly \find[ing] no abuse of discretion\
• finding “a lack of coercion . . . demonstrated by this record” and accordingly “find[ing] no abuse of discretion”
• noting the judge’s decision to dismiss the jury for the day after a jury poll revealed a lone dissenter lessened the risk of coercion by “remov[ing the dissenting juror] from the immediate ‘attacks’ of his peers”

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