State v. Millbrooks

How courts have described this case

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• holding that the decision to discharge a juror and to select an alternate juror is left to the discretion of the trial court
• holding that the decision to discharge a juror and to select an alternate juror is left to the discretion of the trial court
• holding that improper testimony did not create a manifest necessity for a mistrial because trial court gave a promp t curative ins truction
• affirming the denial of a mistrial based upon prejudicial character evidence being countered by curative instructions
• “Generally a mistrial will be declared in a criminal case only when there is a ‘manifest necessity’ requiring such action by the trial judge.”
• defendant who objected to trial court’s discharge of juror failed to allege and prove resultant prejudice

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).