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U.S. v. GREEN

Nos. 05-1014, 05-1151.

407 F.3d 434 (2005)

UNITED STATES of America, Appellant, v. Darryl GREEN et al., Defendants, Appellees. In re United States, Petitioner.

United States Court of Appeals, First Circuit.

Decided May 12, 2005.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Steven L. Lane, Attorney, Appellate Section, Criminal Division, U.S. Dep't of Justice, with whom Michael J. Sullivan, United States Attorney, Theodore B. Heinrich and Lori J. Holik, Assistant United States Attorneys, were on brief, for appellant.

Max D. Stern, with whom Randolph Gioia, Elizabeth Billowitz, Sarah Jennings Hunt, William Brennan, and Brennan, Trainor, Billman & Bennett, LLP were on brief, for appellee Darryl Green.

Max D. Stern, with whom Patricia Garin, Kenneth M. Resnik, Jeffrey Wiesner, Stern, Shapiro, Weissberg & Garin, LLP, David P. Hoose, and Katz, Sasson, Hoose & Turnbill were on brief, for appellee Branden Morris.

John H. Cunha, Jr., with whom George F. Gormley, Christie M. Charles and George F. Gormley, P.C. were on brief, for appellee Jonathan Hart.

John H. Cunha, Jr., with whom Stephen Super and Cunha & Holcomb, P.C. were on brief, for appellee Edward Washington.

Judith H. Mizner on brief for Federal Defender Office, amicus curiae.

Before SELYA, LYNCH and LIPEZ, Circuit Judges.

SELYA, Circuit Judge.

The district court, presiding over a complex multi-count, multi-defendant capital case, issued a pretrial order calling for the empanelment of two separate juries: one to determine guilt and the other, totally different in composition, to determine whether to impose the death penalty. Before us, the government asserts that the Federal Death Penalty Act (FDPA) forbids this binary course of action. We conclude that the district court's unprecedented...

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