Cooks v. Continental Insurance

How courts have described this case

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

• finding that a judge’s instruction probably had the effect of superseding the exercise of the jurors’ own judgment contrary to Part I, Article 15 of the New Hampshire.Constitution
• noting that Miranda “states no requirement to warn about the specific charges that prompt the questioning”
• distinguishing “the perspective of lawyers from that of jurors” in the context of jury instructions
• court’s response created realistic danger that jury misled by mistaking answer to legal question for definitive answer to factual issue
• whether defendant did not sign confession because it was untrue was factual issue for jury to decide

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).