United States v. Randall Dwayne Muse

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• holding that the district court may not remove a stipulated element from the jury’s consideration
• holding that it was “within the court’s discretion” for it to “instruct[] the jurors that . . . an extraneous consideration was not their concern.”
• concluding that the stipulation must be submitted to the jury and suggesting that, to preserve a defendant’s Fifth and Sixth Amendment rights, the jury should be instructed that it may, but need not, find that the stipulated element has been proved beyond a reasonable doubt
• upholding the authority to give an “appropriate corrective instruction” even after closing when counsel argued “an extraneous consideration”
• noting, in the context of a jury trial, that the government must prove “beyond a reasonable doubt all the elements involved in the crime charged—even if the defendant and the government have entered a stipulation as to certain of those elements”
• “A court may not by-pass the jury and enter its own finding that the element has been established.”

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