1st Circuit: Juror’s Use Of Dictionary Does Not Warrant New Fraud Trial

Mealey's (July 10, 2018, 2:00 PM EDT) -- BOSTON— A First Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals panel ruled July 9 that while a federal judge in Puerto Rico abused his discretion when granting a juror’s oral request for a dictionary to look up the word “knowingly” during deliberations of a mail fraud trial against a doctor, the error was not prejudicial enough to warrant a new trial for the defendant (United States v. Anibal Pagan-Romano, No. 16-1396, 1st Cir., 2018 U.S. App. LEXIS 18594)....