Legal Opinion
Phillips v. Smith
District Court, S.D. New York
Decided March 13, 1980No. 79 Civ. 1782PublishedCited by 24 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
PIERCE, District Judge.
OPINION AND ORDER
This petition for a writ of habeas corpus presents this Court with the serious question of whether a defendant charged with capital crimes in state court can receive a fair trial where one of the members of the jury, during the course of the trial, sought some benefit from the prosecutor’s office and where this fact became known to the prosecutor during the trial but was not communicated to defendant’s counsel or to the court until after a verdict of guilty had been returned.
Petitioner William R. Phillips was convicted after a trial before a jury in…
2Cases cited10 opinions
- Duncan v. LouisianaSupreme Court of the United States · 1968
- Tumey v. OhioSupreme Court of the United States · 1927
- Reynolds v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1879
- Clyde Mattox v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1892
- United States v. WoodSupreme Court of the United States · 1936
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3Cited by24 opinions
- Smith v. PhillipsSupreme Court of the United States · 1982
- Abell v. Potomac Insurance CompanyCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1988
- Larry Leon Chaney v. John N. Brown, Warden, Oklahoma State Penitentiary, McAlester OklahomaCourt of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit · 1984
- State v. LewisSupreme Court of Louisiana · 1980
- United States v. FerriCourt of Appeals for the Third Circuit · 1985
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