Legal Opinion
United States v. James William Hynes, A/K/A James Burns
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Decided June 29, 1970No. 33191_1PublishedCited by 42 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MOORE, Circuit Judge:
This case presents a single issue on appeal: did Judge Weinfeld’s delivery of an “Allen charge” 1 to the jury after it reported a deadlock violate the defendant’s sixth amendment right to a verdict rendered by twelve individual and impartial jurors?
Hynes was convicted of having in his possession two counterfeit twenty-dollar bills and attempting to use one as payment for a drink in a tavern. All of the testimony related to this single incident and to Hynes’s knowledge that the bills were counterfeit. The only substantial question presented to the jury was the issue of…
2Cases cited12 opinions
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- James Huffman and Evelyn Nelson Huffman v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1962
- Billy George Andrews v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1962
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3Cited by42 opinions
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