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Supreme Court of Minnesota· 8/4/2005

State v. Dorsey

Citations

  • 701 N.W.2d 238
  • 2005 Minn. LEXIS 469
  • 2005 WL 1836958

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  • concluding that being deprived of the right to an impartial tribunal was structural error requiring automatic reversal
  • holding that the judge’s independent investigation into a factual assertion and revelation of the results of that investigation to counsel deprived defendant of his right to an impartial judge and finder of fact and thus constituted’ structural error
  • holding that the district court demonstrated reversible bias by appearing to assist the state when the district court independently investigated the truthfulness of a defense witness’s testimony and advised counsel of the results of its investigation before the close of evidence
  • holding that a defendant was deprived of an impartial judge, amounting to structural error, when the judge questioned the veracity of an assertion made by a key witness, independently investigated that fact, and reported the results of that investigation to counsel
  • concluding judge was not impartial in questioning, and subsequently independently investigating, the truth of a defense witness’s testimony
  • concluding judge was not impartial where judge (among other things) introduced facts adverse to the defendant that the State had not introduced into the case

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Judges: Paul, Russell, Blatz, Anderson, Barry

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