State v. Turner’s Empirical Analysis

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9 state decisions

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1. “In this case we had a situation where really up until almost the day of trial we had a serious consideration of using a viewing area attached to the jail annex to allow the defendant to watch the proceedings there, given what had happened at earlier sessions. But, based upon what the court heard from the defendant and counsel, the court was persuaded to let Mr. Turner be in the courtroom during the trial. Nonetheless, we used ... what's commonly called the corner courtroom on the third floor, which is probably the smallest of our Superior Court courtrooms, and it was used so as to facilitate a link to the jail so that, if the defendant had to be moved there, it could be—readily be accomplished without having to engage in some sort of a delay in moving courtrooms. The problem with that situation is that, depending on where the defendant would be seated, he would be within either 2 feet or probably 12 feet of where the jury would be seated, and it was—that courtroom is fairly small and in confines. The main consideration that the court had was how to restrain the defendant from possibly acting out towards either counsel or opposing counsel or some other person in the courtroom, and the court felt that it was important to restrain the defendant's hands, given that the hands have been used on prior counsel even while he was wearing the waist chain. So, I mean, it was something the court felt was fairly important to restrain his hands, and that was ultimately why the court chose t”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. State v. Turner

2. “Trial judges always wonder what appellate judges are going to do. They wonder sometimes if—how can I put this? How can I put this? That we wonder sometimes if appellate judges remember what it's like in the trenches, I guess. But I think I feel reasonably comfortable in saying that the record here is abundantly clear. The defendant on his prior appearances in the court lost control on two different occasions, two different hearings, grabbed his attorney by the tie and had to be forcibly extracted from his attorney's tie, had to be removed from the courtroom kicking and screaming in horizontal fashion by a couple of deputies and interspersed with 40 or 50 renditions of the F word towards the bench. I think that in this court's mind I think I feel reasonably safe in concluding that a reviewing court would find that it's not an abuse of the court's discretion to exercise a modicum of security by restraining the defendant's arms and legs.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. State v. Turner

3. “in the constitutional sense. State v. Kwan Fai Mak, 105 Wash.2d 692, 704-05 , 718 P.2d 407 (1986) (footnotes omitted). Although Turner argues that the prosecutor failed to produce the information in compliance with a discovery order, he provides only conjecture that such a failure materially affected the outcome of the trial. Third, Turner argues that the court erred in refusing to instruct the jury that fourth degree assault is a lesser included offense in the charged offense of attempted first degree murder. Under Washington law,”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
   e.g. State v. Turner