Fuselier v. Bertrand

How courts have described this case

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

• stating that it “was not a correct statement of the law” for the trial court to instruct that “willfully does not mean that he knew he was breaking the law”
• finding obvious error where the voir dire of individual jurors was moved to a jury room, from which spectators were excluded, to accommodate the visually impaired prosecutor
• finding obvious error where the voir dire of individual jurors was moved to a jury room, from which spectators were excluded, to accommodate the visually impaired prosecutor
• finding obvious error where the voir dire of individual jurors was moved to a jury room, from which spectators were excluded, to accommodate the visually impaired prosecutor
• perceiving “no difference of significance for Sixth Amendment purposes between excluding the public from the courtroom during voir dire, as in Presley and Barrows, and removing the voir dire proceedings from the courtroom to another location from which the public is excluded”
• “Willfulness necessarily entails knowledge that conduct is proscribed . . . .”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).