Supreme Court of New Jersey· 4/26/2007

State v. Figueroa

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919 A.2d 826
190 N.J. 219
2007 N.J. LEXIS 449

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explaining that our Supreme Court \left it to the sound discretion of the judge\ to decide whether repeating the Czachor jury instruction \is appropriate when a jury reports\ a deadlock (citing State v. Czachor, 82 N.J. 392, 407 (1980))
noting the \brevity of deliberations\ that amounted to a single day in a trial with various charges, including murder and attempted murder
reversing and remanding after finding the court's supplemental charge that it would be around all weekend and \as long as it takes [the jury] to go through this process\ was coercive
finding the trial court's instructions to the jury were \inappropriately coercive\
\We therefore left it to the sound discretion of the trial court to decide whether repeating the charge is appropriate when a jury reports that it is unable to agree.\
while the court's instruction was faulty, finding no error in the court's decision to direct the jury to continue deliberating, where the jury had been deliberating for a day at most

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Judges: Hoens, Rivera-Soto

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