United States Eleventh Circuit

Because counsel's chief reason for being present at trial is to exercise his professional judgment in deciding tactics, defendants do not have a fundamental right to decide between requesting a mistrial rather than an Allen charge.

Appellate Information

• Decided 07/20/2001
• Published 07/20/2001

Judges

• EDMONDSON, Circuit Judge:, Before EDMONDSON, DUBINA and POLITZ, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Eleventh Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• Larry Robert Handfield, Miami, FL, for Defendant-Appellant., Anita J. Gay, Anne Ruth Schultz, Lisa Rubio, Asst. U.S. Atty., Miami, FL, for Plaintiff-Appellee.