Commonwealth v. Kivlin

How courts have described this case

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• court properly prohibited search for evidence which would not have contradicted Commonwealth’s theory of case
• after protracted deliberations and a trial court inquiry regarding whether the jury was deadlocked, court’s grant of mistrial was proper
• deadlock jury’s alleged motivation to avoid weekend deliberations speculative

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).