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People v. Phillips

Citations

  • 91 P.3d 476
  • 2004 Colo. App. LEXIS 526
  • 2004 WL 743704

How courts have described this case

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

  • stating that the defendant was preclude d from challenging the trial court’s response to a jury question when t he “defendant acceded to the court’s response”
  • stating that the defendant was preclude d from challenging the trial court’s response to a jury question when t he “defendant acceded to the court’s response”
  • declining to apply a structural error analysis t o the trial court’s failure to poll one of the jurors
  • “[N]o additional instruction is required when the original instructions adequately inform the jury.”
  • The presumption that a jury understood and heeded instructions “is rebutted where a jury affirmatively indicates it has a fundamental misunderstanding of an instruction it was given.”
  • “Contrary to the People’s contention, we do not employ a waiver theory.”

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Judges: Rothenberg, Nieto, Piccone

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