State v. Staffier

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• concluding that any potential harm to the defendant was addressed by the trial justice allowing the defendant to elicit testimony from a witness regarding the witness’s questionable violation of the court’s sequestration order
• “If the trial justice agrees with the jury’s verdict, the inquiry is complete and the motion for a new trial should be denied.”
• ‘We also recognize that in cases in which juries reach inconsistent verdicts on different counts of the same information, the jury may reach compromises through a variety of motivations, including leniency.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).