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U.S. v. Robinson, No. 01-CR-131 (LEK) (N.D.N.Y.) (2003 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 8016) (May 14, 2003) (Judge Lawrence E. Kahn)

Loaded on April 1, 2003 published in Punch and Jurists April 28, 2003
Filed under: Punch And Jurists, Sufficiency of Evidence.

This is an interesting decision in which Judge Kahn took the rare step of reversing a jury’s Federal murder conviction on the grounds that judicial intervention “was necessary to prevent manifest injustice.”

The defendant, Steven Robinson and six co-defendants, including two of his brothers, were charged with engaging in a ...

 

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