Matthew D. Martin v. State of Missouri

How courts have described this case

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

• explaining that in general, “a trial court should not communicate with the jury in the defendant’s absence”
• declining to presume a judicial assistant acted improperly where the jury returned a verdict against the defendant shortly after the assistant took the jury to lunch.
• bailiff taking lunch orders is not an improper communication

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).