Commonwealth v. FLOYD P.

How courts have described this case

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

• court reversed for accepting partial verdict of guilt where the verdict was characterized as conditional or tentative
• court reversed for accepting partial verdict of guilt where the verdict was characterized as conditional or tentative
• “A judge should observe the jury while they affirm their verdict in open court. If it appears that a juror does not agree with the verdict, inquiry should be made or the jury . . . polled”
• “[B]efore a judge responds to a jury communication of legal significance..., counsel should be given the opportunity to assist the judge in framing an appropriate response and to place on record any objection they might have to the course chosen by the judge.”
• when jury communication of legal significance is received by judge before jury return verdict, “counsel should be given the opportunity to assist the judge in framing an appropriate response and to place on record any objection they might have to the course chosen by the judge”
• under rule 27 [b], judge could take verdicts on delinquency complaints charging armed robbery and aggravated rape and send jury back to deliberate on another complaint charging murder, but error to take verdicts when jurors had reached only “conditional or tentative agreement”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).