U.S. v. MORAN-TOALA

Docket No. 12-2010-cr.

726 F.3d 334 (2013)

UNITED STATES of America, Appellee, v. Elizabeth MORAN-TOALA, Defendant-Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

Decided August 12, 2013.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Patricia E. Notopoulos ( Jo Ann M. Navickas , on the brief), Assistant United States Attorneys, for Loretta E. Lynch, United States Attorney for the Eastern District of New York, Brooklyn, NY, for Appellee.

Florian Miedel , Law Office of Florian Miedel, New York, NY, for Defendant-Appellant.

Before: CALABRESI, CABRANES, and SACK, Circuit Judges.


SACK, Circuit Judge:

Although juries are supposed to render verdicts that are consistent with one another, from time to time they do not. When this happens, it is well established that a criminal defendant cannot exploit any such inconsistency in the jury's verdicts to secure a new trial. This appeal presents not a direct challenge to inconsistent verdicts, but instead a related question: whether the district court erred when it instructed the jury in effect that...

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