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State v. Kelley

Citations

  • 517 N.W.2d 905
  • 1994 Minn. LEXIS 443
  • 1994 WL 278189

How courts have described this case

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  • holding that party moving for new trial on grounds of juror misconduct bears burden to show both misconduct and prejudice
  • concluding that reversal was warranted where the district court directed the jury to keep deliberating, sending a note that stated, “Keep working”
  • concluding that, “while the court’s communications were not coercive on their face, they did not provide the careful description of the obligations of the jurors, individually and collectively, which the Martin court approved”
  • error for “court to communicate with the jury without notice to and outside the presence of the defendant and his counsel”
  • “[T]he defendant is not entitled to relief if the error was harmless beyond a reasonable doubt.”
  • overt acts of coercion by juror may constitute juror misconduct

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Judges: Gardebring

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