United States v. Spencer T. Myers

How courts have described this case

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• holding that overwhelming evidence at trial precluded finding of prejudice from jury instruction error
• noting that court minimized prejudice by not allowing government to show inflammatory photographs of body or bloody scene
• “There is no doubt that the presence of alternate jurors during jury deliberations is a deviation from Rule 24(c).”
• life sentence imposed under Armed Career Criminal Act for being felon in possession of firearm
• “All other things being equal, it cannot possibly be less difficult for the government to get thirteen jurors to agree that a defendant is guilty beyond a reasonable doubt than it is to get twelve to so agree.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).