United States v. Harold Silvern

U.S. Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit · Decided 1973-08-07

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SPRECHER, Circuit Judge. This case has been reheard en banc in an attempt to establish greater certainty in district courts in this Circuit, and to conserve judicial energy by possibly avoiding appeals and retrials, in regard to the giving of the so-called Allen or “dynamite” charge as a supplemental instruction to a deadlocked jury. The Allen instruction was…

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