Commonwealth v. Scanlan

How courts have described this case

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

• “we would embark on a slippery slope indeed if we began to monitor and evaluate the internal procedures of the jury”
• “we would embark on a slippery slope indeed if we began to monitor and evaluate the internal procedures of the jury”
• fellow juror’s statement, “Why doesn’t [the defendant] just get up and plead guilty and save us all the time and money?” did not warrant further inquiry
• ten-month and three-month-old informant’s tips not stale as items sought, sledge hammer and burglarious tools, had been used in continuous criminal activity and were not inherently incriminating
• “it is fair to comment that the defendant was acquitted on [some of the] indictments against him and that, apparently, although the mouths of some of the jurors may have been too open, their minds were not shut”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).