Legal Opinion
Jesse Webster v. United States
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided December 19, 2011No. 09-2308PublishedCited by 7 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
SYKES, Circuit Judge.
In 1995 a federal jury convicted Jesse Webster on cocaine-trafficking and tax-fraud charges, and his direct appeals were unsuccessful. Sometime after his trial, Webster discovered that a member of the jury had called in sick one day in the middle of deliberations. Webster filed a habeas petition under 28 U.S.C. § 2255 alleging that deliberations proceeded that day in the juror’s absence, violating his right to trial by a jury of twelve. The government did not dispute that a juror was absent for a day but maintained that the rest of the jury was sent home and did not…
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