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Fourth Circuit· 8/12/1992

United States v. Robert Peter Russell

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  • 971 F.2d 1098

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  • holding that approximately three hours of post-Allen jury charge deliberation “provides adequate assurance that the jury was not improperly coerced by the district court’s instruction”
  • holding evidence of defendant's extramarital affairs and discharge from the Marine Corps admissible to show motive in the murder of defendant's wife
  • observing that the task of courts reviewing sufficiency of the evidence is not \to make judgments about the credibility of the witnesses.\
  • finding that three hours of deliberations were evi- dence that a jury was not coerced
  • holding evidence of defendant's extramari- tal affairs and discharge from the Marine Corps admissible to show motive in the murder of defendant's wife
  • finding that three hours of deliberations were evidence that a jury was not coerced

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Judges: Russell, Luttig, Howard, Eastern

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