Raymond F. Riley v. George Deeds

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• concluding that judge’s “complete abdication of judicial control” during jury deliberations amounted to structural error
• convening of court by law clerk who directed court reporter toread back testimony to jury in absence of judge was structural constitutional error requiring reversal
• law clerk erroneously convened court, in absence of the judge, to read back testimony for jury
• complete abdication of judicial control

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).