United States Eleventh Circuit

In a case involving an off-the-record (unrecorded and no transcript), private (no counsel was present) talk by a District Judge with the members of a jury who were in the process of deliberating the issue of guilt or innocence in a felony trial, denial of a motion for new trial for abuse of discretion is affirmed where given the evidence against defendant at trial, the circumstances of the private conference, and the applicable standard of review, the district judge did not err in denying a new trial.

Appellate Information

• Decided 01/30/2009
• Published 01/30/2009

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• United States Eleventh Circuit

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