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← 351 Md. 387 - Bruce v. State

Bruce v. State’s Empirical Analysis

1998

Citation profile

20
cited by 20 later decisions
1
states following
December 2019
most recently cited

20 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on Soberon v. United States · Needler v. Valley National Bank of Arizona · Dowling v. United States · Ross v. State · United States v. Console

Most-quoted passages

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  1. “The trial judge in the case sub judice found that there was no reasonable likelihood that any of the jurors had seen the potentially prejudicial information contained upon the electronic bulletin board, and that finding was supported by the evidence; consequently, he did not abuse his discretion in refusing to voir dire the jurors to investigate Bruce’s speculation that the jury had been tainted by such exposure.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage

How this case has been treated — in progress

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