Legal Opinion
Johnson v. United States
District of Columbia Court of Appeals
Decided July 14, 1976No. 9713PublishedCited by 12 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
KELLY, Associate Judge:
Tommie A. Johnson, convicted by a jury of committing two armed robberies, 1 urges on appeal that the trial judge coercéd the verdicts by, among other things, allowing the jury to continue deliberating notwithstanding a second announcement that a verdict could not be reached on the robbery charges. He argues also that the judge erred in denying the jury foreman’s request to approach the bench immediately before the rendition of the final verdict and that he committed plain error when he referred in a portion of his final charge to armed robbery as requiring proof of…
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- Kendall v. United StatesDistrict of Columbia Court of Appeals · 1975
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