A federal court jury got it right— and the trial judge got it wrong—in a case where a man was convicted of drug charges after jurors inferred that he was part of a conspiracy, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit said yesterday in a divided opinion.
Two of the judges voted to reinstate a jury’s decision against Roohid Hakimi over the objections of a dissenter, who argued that Northern District Judge David Hurd (See Profile) had properly rejected the verdict.
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