Source: https://fr.scribd.com/doc/315957449/United-States-v-Pasquale-Perrotta-United-States-of-America-v-William-Agnos-553-F-2d-247-1st-Cir-1977
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for Pasquale Perrotta, defendant, appellant.
James N. Gabriel, U. S. Atty., Boston, Mass., Gerald E. McDowell, U. S.
Dept. of Justice, Washington, D.C., were on brief, for appellee.
jury trial, of conducting an illegal gambling business in violation of18 U.S.C.
The first issue is now effectively foreclosed by our decision in United States v.
Scibelli, 549 F.2d 222 (1st Cir., 1977), petition for cert. filed, 45 U.S.L.W.
here. We accordingly reject appellants' arguments on that score.
reached any of the jurors and affected their ability to render an unbiased verdict.
prejudicial not only as to this defendant but the other defendants.
other two men as well."
shortly thereafter, which found all defendants guilty.
court, and not by any outside influence, whether of private talk or public print."
not required to proceed further." Id. at 735.
article was more dangerous than disclosure of the same evidence in open court.
wisely been instructed not to read anything about the case in the newspapers.
believe that appellants were entitled to the reassurance of such an inquiry.
the whole, that the judgment was not substantially swayed by the error."
Kotteakos v. United States, 328 U.S. 750, 765, 66 S.Ct. 1239, 1248, 90 L.Ed.
1557 (1946). Compare United States v. Kallevig, 534 F.2d 411, 415 (1st Cir.
remand for a new trial.
substantially outweighed by the danger of unfair prejudice . . . ."
entitled to jury instructions to that effect.
permitted in Margoles v. United States, 407 F.2d 727, 735 (7th Cir.), cert.
procedural controls which are an intrinsic part of our system. See Marshall v.
United States, supra at 312-13, 79 S.Ct. 1171; Patterson v. Colorado, 205 U.S.
the $163,000 in currency was irrelevant to the case against appellants. Cf.
269, 274 (10th Cir. 1972). Cf. United States v. Thomas, 463 F.2d 1061 (7th Cir.

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