Jenkins v. State’s Empirical Analysis

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2 state decisions

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1. “the trial court was in the process of responding to a jury question raised during deliberations [when] a juror asked a new question, the substance of which went well beyond the initial question. Without consulting counsel, the court instructed the jury in response to the additional inquiry. Although the court afforded counsel an opportunity to subsequently request an addition to the instruction and to object to the instruction as given, such belated consultation with counsel is insufficient to overcome the taint of the court’s communicating with the jury without affording a party a meaningful opportunity to have input on the court’s framing of the instruction.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 61 So. 3d 499 - Pearson v. State