Legal Opinion
United States v. Bartley Burns and Lawrence Kelly
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided July 16, 1982No. 81-2024, 81-2028PublishedCited by 37 opinions
1Per curiam
One of the issues presented in these federal criminal appeals concerns a situation in which the trial judge, in response to a request from the jury for a supplementary instruction, entered the jury room during deliberations without advance notice to the defense and gave the jurors an oral definition of an element of one of the offenses charged in the indictment. Because of our concern for the orderly conduct of a trial by jury in a federal criminal case, we reverse and remand defendants’ convictions as to the count which was the subject of the supplementary instruction. Finding no reversible…
2Cases cited11 opinions
- Sandstrom v. MontanaSupreme Court of the United States · 1979
- Rogers v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1975
- United States v. CiampagliaCourt of Appeals for the First Circuit · 1980
- United States v. Thomas E. JoyceCourt of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit · 1974
- United States v. Lee Stoller Enterprises, Inc., Lee Stoller, John M. Cooper, and John MaerasCourt of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit · 1981
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3Cited by37 opinions
- James T. Voutour v. Harold Vitale, James T. Voutour v. Harold VitaleCourt of Appeals for the First Circuit · 1985
- United States v. Thomas E. Silverstein, Adolph Reynosa, Clayton A. Fountain, and Edgar HevleCourt of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit · 1984
- United States v. Michael John Canino, James Gilbert Marcum, John G. Flynn, and David Leonard MalkinCourt of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit · 1992
- United States v. Beverly J. Ramsey, Michael J. Marshall, Stuart A. McCreary and James Joseph O'DOnnellCourt of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit · 1986
- United States v. John Josefik and Charles SoterasCourt of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit · 1985
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