Legal Opinion
United States v. Robert E. Capua
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Decided September 21, 1981No. 79-3948PublishedCited by 277 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
ALVIN B. RUBIN, Circuit Judge:
The jury selection procedure formerly employed in the United States District Court for the Southern District of Texas permitted the expiration of a significant length of time between the selection of a jury and the start of the trial of a criminal defendant, and created the possibility that the jurors selected might serve as jurors in similar criminal cases during that interval. Because of the use of that procedure, we have, on direct appeal, reversed a number of convictions. 1 Now a federal prisoner who objected to the jury selection procedure prior to his…
2Cases cited26 opinions
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- United States v. AddonizioSupreme Court of the United States · 1979
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3Cited by277 opinions
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