188 N.C. App. 207 - State v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
2008
Citation profile
14
cited by 14 later decisions
1
states following
February 2018
most recently cited
14 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Chapman v. State of California · United States v. Cronic · State v. Odom · State v. Powell · City of Los Angeles v. Department of Transportation
Most-quoted passages
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“[o]n more than one occasion, the [trial] court asked the jury foreman whether the jury was making progress towards a verdict [and] [e]ach time he was asked, the foreman indicated that the jury was making progress.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[a]t no time did the trial court inform the jurors that they would not be able to go home until they reached a unanimous verdict or that they would remain together until they reconciled their differences.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
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