KELTON

v.

UNITED STATES

Citator

Cited By

• United States v. Nell, 526 F.2d 1223 (5th Cir. 1976)
  …of challenges exercised during the voir dire of prospective jurors. See Swain v. Alabama, supra. Although a trial court has broad discretion in its conduct of voir dire, e. g., United States v. Fruge, 5 Cir. 1974, 492 F. 2d 1163, 1165, cert. denied, 419 U.S. 856, 95 S.Ct. 101, 42 L.Ed.2d 88-89; United States v. Gassaway, 5 Cir. 1972, 456 F. 2d 624, 626, its exercise of that discretion is “subject to the essential demands of fairness.” Aldridge v. United States, 1931, 283 U.S. 308, 310, 51 S.Ct. 470, 471, 75…
• United States v. Conroy, 589 F.2d 1258 (5th Cir. 1979)
  …for the trial judge to choose to conduct the voir dire himself. United States v. Wertis, 5 Cir. 1974, 505 F. 2d 683, cert. denied, 1975, 422 U.S. 1045, 95 S.Ct. 2662, 45 L.Ed.2d 697; United States v. Fruge, 5 Cir. 1974, 492 F. 2d 1163, cert. denied, 419 U.S. 856, 95 S.Ct. 101,42 L.Ed.2d 88; Hawkins v. United States, 5 Cir. 1970, 434 F. 2d 738; see F.R. Cr.P. 24(a). Although defendants assert error in the district court’s failure to ask specifically requested questions on voir dire, Judges Roney and Vance h…
• United States v. Suarez, 608 F.2d 584 (5th Cir. 1979)
  …he trial judge or the appellate judge concludes that the evidence fails to exclude every reasonable hypothesis of innocence, but rather whether the jury might reasonably so conclude. United States v. Smith, 493 F. 2d 24, 26 (5th Cir.), cert. denied, 419 U.S. 856, 95 S.Ct. 101, 42 L.Ed.2d 88 (1974). We first consider the defendants’ claim that the evidence did not exclude every reasonable hypothesis of innocence as to whether the marijuana found floating in the Gulf of Mexico and recovered by the Coast Guar…

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