232 So. 2d 451 - Slinsky v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1970
Citation profile
17 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently September 2015
17 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on Adams v. State · Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad Company v. Dallas D. Speth and Olin Mathieson Chemical Corporation · 95 So. 2d 525 - Smith v. State · Nelson v. State · Peadon v. State
Most-quoted passages
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“[T]he trial court, faced with [a request to have testimony read], should have advised counsel of it and re-convened court with defendant in attendance.... This would afford counsel an opportunity to perform their respective functions. They could advise the court, object, request the giving of additional instructions or the reading of additional testimony, and otherwise fully participate in this facet of the proceeding. We agree. Any communication with the jury outside the presence of the prosecutor, the defendant, and defendant's counsel is so fraught with potential prejudice that it cannot be considered harmless.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“After the case was submitted to the jury and during the course of their deliberations in the jury room, the jury sent a message by the bailiff to the trial judge. It requested that certain testimony be read back to them. The court summarily denied the request. This procedure was accomplished without inquiry, without opening court and without advising the defendant's counsel or the prosecuting attorney. It was also conducted outside the presence of the defendant. This procedure was assigned as error. We believe that it was and because of it that defendant should have a new trial.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Coley v. State · Ivory v. State“After the jurors have retired to consider their verdict, if they request additional instructions or to have any testimony read to them they shall be conducted into the courtroom by the officer who has them in charge and the court may give them such additional instructions or may order such testimony read to them. Such instructions shall be given and such testimony read only after notice to the prosecuting attorney and to counsel for the defendant.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage
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