Legal Opinion
United States v. Lucy Velez
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Decided June 18, 1981No. 1229, Docket 80-1429PublishedCited by 26 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
IRVING R. KAUFMAN, Circuit Judge:
Although the jury ordinarily finds the facts and applies the law, the trial judge, in delivering his charge, bears the weighty responsibility of untangling the skein of legal principles. Thus, we must be sensitive to prejudicial errors in the court’s instructions, lest the jury’s verdict become the product of caprice rather than a true application of law to fact. In this case, we hold that the district judge’s failure in his supplemental instructions to recharge the jury on willful membership in the conspiracy as an element of that offense requires reversal of…
2Cases cited11 opinions
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- United States v. Frank Viserto, Jr., Richard Rocco, Joseph Solce, Garnet Johnson, Sarah Payne, Howard Williams and Prentiss CovingtonCourt of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1979
- United States v. James F. Bolden, United States of America v. George E. JonesCourt of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit · 1975
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