Beal v. Sloan

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• recognizing that counsel for a co-defendant “first and foremost” had a duty to represent his client, and that the client’s interests were best served by waiving the jury demand
• concluding that the defendant’s failure to appear at trial constituted a consent to waiver of a jury demand where “[t]he record does not disclose any agreement among counsel not to withdraw their respective jury demands”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).