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U.S. v. ROBINSON

No. 90-2564WA.

953 F.2d 433 (1992)

UNITED STATES of America, Appellee, v. James Harold ROBINSON, Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, Eighth Circuit.

Decided January 9, 1992.

Rehearing Denied April 2, 1992.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William R. Wilson, Little Rock, Ark., argued (John Richard Byrd, Hamburg, Ark., and Gary D. Corum, Little Rock, Ark., on brief), for appellant.

Marie K. McElderry, Dept. of Justice, Washington, D.C., argued (J. Michael Fitzhugh, U.S. Atty., Fort Smith, Ark., and John R. Dunne, Asst. Atty. Gen., and Dennis J. Dimsey, Dept. of Justice, Washington, D.C., on brief), for appellee.

Before LAY, Chief Judge, and ARNOLD and FAGG, Circuit Judges.

ARNOLD, Circuit Judge.

James Harold Robinson appeals his conviction on three counts of willfully depriving and one count of conspiring to deprive Jimmy Lee Mosier of his civil rights under color of state law. Robinson claims that a supplemental jury instruction given by the District Court coerced the jury's deliberations. We agree and reverse.

I.

On February 21, 1990, a grand jury sitting in the Western District of Arkansas indicted Robinson on one...

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