Legal Opinion
United States v. Steven C. Griffin, Marvin M. Rux, and Andrae Scurlock, Appeal of Stanley L. Hill
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided June 3, 1996No. 94-3846PublishedCited by 15 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
KANNE, Circuit Judge.
A jury trial presents the inevitable tension between the necessary control a district judge must exercise to achieve the fair presentation of evidence in an impartial forum and the methods for the submission of evidence used by counsel in aggressive representation of their clients. Experienced trial lawyers know that the adversarial nature of a trial — particularly in the presence of a jury— provides an opportunity to achieve an advantage for their clients if they can gain control of the forum. On the other hand, experienced federal trial judges are not unfamiliar with…
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