Legal Opinion
Smego v. Payne
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided April 12, 2017No. 13-2055PublishedCited by 6 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
FLAUM, Circuit Judge.
Near the end of his jury trial on various § 1983 claims, Richard M. Smego was removed from the courtroom. Various law students who had been appointed to act as his counsel remained behind. The jury ultimately returned a verdict in favor of defendants, and one of the law students declined to poll the jury without consulting Smego. Smego now appeals, arguing that the district court committed reversible error in removing him from the courtroom, and that he is entitled to a new trial under our holding in Verser v. Barfield, 741 F.3d 734 (7th Cir. 2013), because he was…
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