United States v. Logan P. Huntress

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• noting that, under pre-Olano Fifth Circuit precédent, “a violation of Rule 24(c) would not require reversal unless there was a reasonable possibility that the violation had an effect on the verdict”
• upholding district court’s decision to dismiss mentally ill juror even though juror’s mental illness did not appear during voir dire or during the trial
• dismissing a juror from deliberations after the juror began to experience mental illness
• juror’s “diagnosis of mental incapacity” rendered him incapable of “perform[ing] the function required of him” as a juror
• twenty year sentence where loss to investors was $478 million
• “We read the [amended] Rule 23(b), in conjunction with . . . Rule 24(c), as requiring that district judges allow an 11-member jury to proceed to verdict or grant a mistrial. . . . The intent of the 1983 amendment to Rule 23(b

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