Shootes v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• concluding that defendant’s right to an impartial trial was prejudiced by large number of law enforcement personnel in courtroom on last day of trial
• concluding that defendant's right to an impartial trial was prejudiced by large number of law enforcement personnel in courtroom on last day of trial
• reversing after first trial, noting that “visual presentation of the officers was . . . a feature of the trial and was pivotal to Appellant’s theory of defense.”
• “[T]he Fourteenth Amendment incorporates the essence of the Sixth Amendment right to be tried by a panel of impartial, indifferent jurors whose verdict must be based upon the evidence developed at the trial.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).