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United States, 164 U.S. 492 (1896), was a United States Supreme Court case that, among other things, approved the use of a jury instruction intended to prevent a hung jury by encouraging jurors in the minority to reconsider. The Court affirmed Alexander Allen's murder conviction, having vacated his two prior convictions for the same crime.
Case history; Prior: United States v. Boyle, 283 F. App'x 825 (2d Cir. 2007) Holding; Proof of a pattern of racketeering activity may be sufficient in a particular case to permit a jury to infer the existence of an association-in-fact enterprise. Court membership; Chief Justice John Roberts Associate Justices John P. Stevens · Antonin Scalia
Jury instructions can also serve an important role in guiding the jury how to consider certain evidence. [10] All 50 states have a model set of instructions, usually called "pattern jury instructions", which provide the framework for the charge to the jury; sometimes, only names and circumstances have to be filled in for a particular case.
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5.2.2 Racial discrimination in the jury pool and venire. ... Such cases have come to comprise a substantial portion of the Supreme ... New York, 399 U.S. 117 (1970 ...
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Jury instructions sometimes make reference to the juror's oath. For example, the Criminal Pattern Jury Instructions developed by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 10th Circuit for use by U.S. District Courts state: [14] You, as jurors, are the judges of the facts.
NEW YORK – A jury on Monday found former Marine Daniel Penny not guilty of criminally negligent homicide in the death of Jordan Neely, a homeless man who Penny placed in a chokehold onboard a ...