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State v. McClain

Citations

  • 591 A.2d 652
  • 248 N.J. Super. 409

How courts have described this case

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  • emphasizing that the jury's failure \to ask for further clarification or indicate confusion demonstrates that the response was satisfactory\
  • affirming a defendant's conviction where the judge reinstructed the jury with his original charge with the parties' consent and the jury did not ask for further clarification
  • rejecting a passion/provocation manslaughter charge premised upon the victim's repeated infidelity and where the incidents of the victim's abuse toward the defendant were remote in time to the victim's murder
  • \The failure of the jury to ask for further clarification or indicate confusion [after readback of jury charge] demonstrates that the response was satisfactory.\

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Judges: Judges O'brien, Scalera and Keefe

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