People v. Stevens

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that “[r]eviewing courts may consider additional factors if they are relevant to the determination of partiality in a particular case”
• recognizing that jury instructions do not always alleviate the prejudice caused by improper judicial conduct
• holding that a judge should “not permit his own views on disputed issues of fact to become apparent to the jury”
• holding that a trial judge’s conduct deprives a defendant of a fair trial if, under the totality of the circumstances, the judge’s conduct “improperly influenced the jury by creating the appearance of advocacy or partiality against a party.”
• stating that “in some instances judicial conduct may so overstep its bounds that no instruction can erase the appearance of partiality”
• stating that a trial court should be mindful of the words it uses before the jury and should avoid intimidating, argumentative, or skeptical statements

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).