State v. Njonge’s Empirical Analysis

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2 state decisions

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1. “[DEPUTY PROSECUTOR]: ... Five of the family members of the victim are testifying at trial. They will be testifying as my first witnesses, and I have told them that they are not allowed to be in the courtroom until after. At that point, I expect them to sit in. One of the family members had asked if they could sit in during voir dire. I have not had that request before; so I don't know the Court's feelings. It's not testimony. I don't think it's a concern, but I don't know, or even if there is space for that. So, I just wanted to raise that issue, also, to find out if that was even a possibility. THE COURT: It's not testimony; that's true. However, I'm not going to allow it. For one thing, we are in very cramped quarters for jury selection, and I think about the only place for visitors to sit is going to be in a little anteroom out there, and I will tell you, with what we are going to do about trying to get enough just to do this in one meeting. The other thing is, quite frankly, the jurors will be seeing that face throughout the entire process and maybe making some connections with that person when the person gets on the stand. I don't think it's fair; so, I am not going to allow it.”

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

2. “Just let me say for the people who are observing. You are certainly welcome to observe. Tomorrow when we have the jury selection, there will not be room for all of you. What we are going to do to allow people to observe is check with the fire marshall ... and make sure that we can keep those first swinging doors open. And if we can do that, then we will allow some people to observe if they wish to do so during jury selection by sitting in that kind of entry hall, if we can do that. But, otherwise, as you can see, we are already putting chairs up here to accommodate the jury. We may be able to have chairs out there; we may not. We may be able to have the doors open without chairs. We are going to find that out. The chance of all [of] you being able to be here and observe are slim to none during the jury selection process.”

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

3. “Some family members who are not witnesses stuck around this morning, hoping there might be some seats later, and your bailiff informed them at lunch since some people were excused there were some. So I don't know if the Court has any problem with that. They are not witnesses. We tried to figure out a spot that would be in a row that basically has no jurors. So that second row over there only has Juror 30. Is that okay with the Court if they are in there?”

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