BLACKBURN

v.

UNITED STATES; AND CALL V. UNITED STATES

Citator

Cited By (41 total)

• United States v. Dellinger, 472 F.2d 340 (7th Cir. 1972)
  …luating their own fitness to serve as jurors. The two cases seemingly closest to the situation before us are Silverthorne v. United States, 400 F. 2d 627 (9th Cir., 1968), and Patriarca v. United States, 402 F. 2d 314 (1st Cir., 1968) cert. denied, 393 U.S. 1022, 89 S.Ct. 633, 21 L.Ed.2d 567 (1969). In Silverthorne, the court reversed a conviction where, unlike the instant case, the prospective jurors were asked if they had heard anything about the case, but the court “made no effort to ascertain what infor…

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• United States v. Brown, 540 F.2d 364 (8th Cir. 1976)
  …e ineligible because of the effects of pretrial publicity.13 While a more pervasive atmosphere of prejudicial publicity might warrant resort to such procedure, see, e. g., Patriarca v. United States, 402 F. 2d 314, 318 (1st Cir. 1968), cert. denied, 393 U.S. 1022, 89 S.Ct. 633, 21 L.Ed.2d 567 (1969); Silverthorne v. United States, 400 F. 2d 627, 639-40 (9th Cir. 1968),14 especially if the trial judge could not assure himself that the jurors were able and willing to answer his preliminary questions in candor,…

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• United States v. Ralph "Whitey" Tropiano, 418 F.2d 1069 (2d Cir. 1969)
  …onalized voir dire was necessary to effect a proper inquiry into the impact on the minds of the jury of the inflammatory publicity, citing a number of cases and, in particular, Patriarca v. United States, 402 F. 2d 314 (1st Cir. 1968), cert. denied, 393 U.S. 1022, 89 S.Ct. 633, 21 L.Ed.2d 567 (1969). We find no factual parallels in the cases cited and none of the hazards to a fair trial described by the ABA, Standards Relating to Fair Trial and Free Press (Approved Draft, March, 1968), pp. 25-40. There was…