People v. Rushin

How courts have described this case

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

• recognizing that special precautions must be taken when recalling the jury after formal discharge in a criminal case because of double jeopardy concerns and the “differing nature of the criminal process”
• finding error where jury reconvened after leaving the courtroom, \be it for two minutes or two days\
• invalidating reassembly even when the jury remained undispersed and had only left the courtroom for only two minutes because the jury conducted further deliberations and altered its verdict upon return
• error to reconvene jury after it had left the courtroom, “be it for two minutes or two days”
• “The Court cannot ascertain the influence to which the jury has been subjected after it has left the courtroom, be it for two minutes or two days.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).