People ex rel. Williams v. Lotz

How courts have described this case

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• rejecting “defendant’s claim that a more pointed instruction would have avoided the deadlock”
• where evidence established that defendant participated in joint venture to murder, jury need not determine precise role played
• “Absent evidence that the judge acted in bad faith, alleged judicial errors giving rise to a mistrial do not support a claim of double jeopardy.”
• “We need not consider the propriety of the judge’s extreme atrocity or cruelty instruction where, as here, the jury rationally concluded that the defendant was guilty of felony-murder”
• jury not required to conclude unanimously that the defendant was either the principal or the joint venturer
• even if judge’s failure to give joint venture instruction to deadlocked jury had been error, such error would not have precluded retrial absent showing of bad faith

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).