ILANA DIAMOND ROVNER, Circuit Judge.
This Court has addressed many appeals related to the use of peremptory challenges, but this one appears unprecedented. Here, the prosecutor was allowed to use a peremptory challenge "saved" from the jury selection phase to eliminate a juror on the sixth day of an eight-day trial. The defendants seek a new trial, arguing that the prosecution's mid-trial use of a peremptory challenge violated their Fifth Amendment due process right...
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