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BNA Criminal Practice manual Vol. 2 No. 16 - August 10, 1988

BNA Criminal Practice Manual Vol. 2 No. 16 - August 10, 1988

"Howard Beach Dual Juries Receive Votes of Approval: Defense attorneys who won acquittals for their clients in the latest Howard Beach case told BNA that the dual jury technique may have worked in their favor. Although a key reason for the technique is to segregate evidence heard by each jury, one attorney was also able to persuade the trial judge to excuse his client's jury when the cross-examination strategy of the other defendant's lawyers conflicted with his. ...

Use of Dual Juries Draws Acclaim in Howard Beach Case: Lawyers for two defendants acquitted in the second round of Howard Beach trials last month praised the dual jury technique that Judge Thomas A. Demakos employed to both expedite the case and solve the problem of codefendant statements. The prosecutor for the dual trials - one involving a single defendant, the other involving four codefendants - also endorsed the device. Poeple v. Bollander, NY SupCt, Indict. No. SPOQ 146/87, Denakos, J., 7/15/88. (See 2 BNA CrimPracMan 246, 295.) ...

Although defense attorney Victor Knapp Forest Hill, NY initially opposed the dual jury technique, he said he ended up liking it because it benefited his client "in a way that I didn't really foresee." His client, John Saggese, was acquitted of one felony count of riot in the first degree and of the lesser included offense of riot in the second degree."

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