Folk v. State

How courts have described this case

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• holding the trial court erred by substituting an alternate juror after the alternate juror had been dismissed from jury service and after the jury had been in deliberations for almost two hours
• bumping of defendant's trial occasioned by continuance of another criminal prosecution constituted \good cause\ within the speedy trial statute, tolling ticking of the speedy trial time clock
• bumping of defendant's trial occasioned by continuance of another criminal prosecution constituted \good cause\ within the speedy trial statute, tolling ticking of the speedy trial time clock
• “It is common knowledge that jurors carefully attend the trial judge’s every action. His position of authority, respect and neutrality give him peculiar power to influence.”
• “This Court has for twenty years held that any deviation from the approved Sharplin charge is reversible error.... This unbroken line of cases represents a longstanding bright line rule for this Court.”
• “A finding of good cause is a finding of ultimate fact.”

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