State v. Crumley

How courts have described this case

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

• defense counsel spoke to jury in closing about defendant’s not testifying, justifying it on defense counsel’s opinion about weakness of state’s case
• trial jury was discharged when the prior conviction issue was “overlooked” and second jury therefore prohibited
• “Primarily, the prosecutor’s reply was directed not at the failure to testify but at defense counsel’s arguing his personal belief.”
• “It is simply too dangerous a practice to discharge the individual jurors . . . , send them back into the community . . . , and then recall those same jurors.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).