United States v. Robert Zelinka

How courts have described this case

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• holding that “when a defendant alleges that an unauthorized contact with a juror has tainted a trial, a hearing must be held”
• threatening comment to jurors from spectator “who appeared to be associated” with the defendant
• affirming denial of mistrial when spectator who appeared to be associated with defendant made statement that it would be too bad if the elevator the jurors were boarding should crash, causing fear on the part of some of the jurors
• finding the trial court did not err in denying the defendant's motion for mistrial where the jurors all testified at a hearing that their impartiality was not affected by implied threats made by spectators linked to the defendant.
• finding the trial court did not err in denying the defendant's motion for mistrial where the jurors all testified at a hearing that their impartiality was not affected by implied threats made by spectators linked to the defendant.
• The evidence of the defendant’s “involvement in cocaine transactions a few days after the end of the conspiracy charged in the indictment did not create a fatal variance.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).