United States v. John Josefik and Charles Soteras

How courts have described this case

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• concluding the ostrich instruction was “com- pletely harmless as to [one defendant], for there was direct evidence that he himself described the scotch as stolen”
• finding that limitations exist on the ability of parties to stipulate to the structure of the jury at trial because “if the parties stipulated to trial by 12 orangutans the defendant’s 2 (...continued
• finding no constitutional problem with a juror substitution when the alternate juror rejoined the jury only nine minutes into its deliberations, which were “started over, at the trial judge’s direction”
• finding no constitutional problem with a juror substitution when the alternate juror rejoined the jury only nine minutes into its deliberations, which were “started over, at the trial judge’s direction”
• Agreement to be tried by twelve orangutans would be invalid “because some minimum of civilized procedure is required by community feeling regardless of what the defendant wants or is willing to accept.”
• “If the defendant would prefer to take his chances with the jury in its reconstituted form rather than undergo the expense and uncertainty of a new trial, why should he not be allowed to?”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).