U.S. v. Nelson, No. 95-5536 (4th Cir.) (102 F.3d 1344) (December 18, 1996) (Judge Paul V. Niemeyer)
Loaded on Feb. 1, 1997
published in Punch and Jurists
February 03, 1997
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The Court, in this case, focuses on the issue of whether the failure to instruct the jurors that they should not discuss the case with anyone outside the courtroom and that they should not discuss the case among themselves until they retired to deliberate was per se reversible error. Here, ...
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