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· 5/5/1939

Skinner v. Coy

Citations

  • 13 Cal. 2d 407
  • 90 P.2d 296
  • 1939 Cal. LEXIS 268

How courts have described this case

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  • explaining that a trial court’s communications with the jury “should be restricted, in the absence of the accused and his counsel, to matters relating to the comfort and convenience of the jury”
  • there should be no communication with a juror outside the presence of the accused “which would tend in any manner to prejudice the accused”
  • there should be no communication with a juror outside the presence of the accused \which would tend in any manner to prejudice the accused\

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