United States v. Joseph Polichemi

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• explaining that in certain situations, a juror “may well be objective in fact, but the relationship is so close that the law errs on the side of caution”
• explaining that a juror who belongs to a class presumed biased “may well be objective in fact, but the relationship is so close that the law errs on the side of caution”
• explaining that a juror who belongs to a class presumed biased “may well be objective in fact, but the relationship is so close that the law errs on the side of caution”
• characterizing conduct that occurred more than 10 years prior to charged crime as “at the outer edges” of Rule 404(b)’s requirements
• distinguishing Patterson, in which the error did not call into question the impartiality of the jury ultimately selected, from Underwood, where the entire process of jury selection was infected with ambiguity
• characterizing conduct that occurred more than 10 years prior to charged crime as “at the outer edges” of Rule 404(b)’s requirements

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).