Opinion · Supreme Court of the United States

Sherman v. Johnson

516 U.S. 1180

Type
Opinion
Court
Supreme Court of the United States
Jurisdiction
Federal
Date
1996-03-18
Topic
general

How later courts describe this case

  • district court twice gave a "cautionary instruction explaining how the jury was to regard the re-read testimony"
  • Fed.R.Evid.606(b) precluded the introduction of juror’s affidavit that attempted to explain the effect of an Allen charge in a criminal trial, wherein Tennessee prison guards were charged with depriving inmates of their civil rights under state law

Citator

UpLaw has not yet analyzed Sherman v. Johnson. The absence of a flag is not a finding that it is good law.

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C. A. 5th Cir. Certiorari denied.