Court Opinion

ID: 9454298
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-04 18:42:30.887561+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T17:34:03.746547
License: Public Domain

KILEY and FAIRCHILD, Circuit Judges
(concurring).
We concur in reversal and in the conclusions ably stated by Senior Circuit Judge Major with respect to the error of sending the stipulation to the jury room. We respectfully disagree that the Judge’s supplementary charge to the jury exceeded the bounds which have been approved in previous cases. We do think, however, that it is appropriate to state that although supplementary charges which make a suggestion that jurors reexamine their positions have usually been held not to be coercive and reversible error, such charges often present a close question and district judges would be well advised to be most sparing and cautious in using them.