United States v. Ayeni, Shola

“It goes without saying that few institutions are as venerable as that of trial by jury, enshrined at the Founding in the Bill of Rights and hallowed by an enormous body of English and American law that commands judges ... not to invade the province of judgment by the people.” Stacey v. Allied Stores Corp., 768 F.2d 402, 406 (D.C.Cir.1985). Implicating both that venerable institution and that command, this case presents the question whether supplemental arguments in response to juries’ factual questions — a procedure so unusual that its use in a federal criminal case has apparently never been…