United States v. Adielizzio

SWAN, Circuit Judge.

The appellants were indicted with two pther defendants, who pleaded guilty, on a charge of conspiring to aid certain persons to. obtain seaman’s certificates by mean’s of fraud and false statements. After trial the jury returned a sealed verdict which found the appellants guilty and recommended “extreme mercy and leniency.” Shortly before this verdict was returned, the jury had notified the judge in writing that “it will be impossible to come to an unanimous agreement.” To this an' oral reply was transmitted through the bailiff that the jury would be taken to a hotel for…