The People v. Joel Nelson

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• holding that, because defense counsel, upon learning that spectators had worn shirts depicting the deceased victim, did not move for a mistrial or make argument that the court erred, that issue was unpreserved for appellate review
• reviewing trial court's failure to act in response to spectators who wore shirts depicting the deceased victim
• declining to apply a per se rule of reversal to spectator conduct, declining to apply the Williams-Flynn framework, and concluding that spectator displays depicting a victim should be prohibited in the courtroom during trial, but applying a harmless error analysis

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  Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York· 2016-08-17· cited 11×
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  Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York· 2017-01-05· cited 10×
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  Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York· 2016-05-12· cited 8×
• People v. Nguyen
  Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York· 2017-12-22· cited 6×
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  Supreme Court of Kansas· 2021-05-14· cited 6×
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  Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York· 2022-08-03· cited 6×
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  Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York· 2020-05-01· cited 5×
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  Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York· 2020-08-19· cited 5×
• People v. Acosta
  Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York· 2022-09-30· cited 4×
• People v. Sanson
  Criminal Court of the City of New York· 2016-06-24· cited 3×
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  Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York· 2022-10-26· cited 2×
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  Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York· 2021-12-29
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  Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York· 2022-01-05
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Cites

26 cases in this archive are cited by this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• People v. Crimmins
  New York Court of Appeals· 1975-02-25· cited 6,387×
• Estelle v. Williams
  Supreme Court· 1976-06-21· cited 2,305×
• Carey v. Musladin
  Supreme Court· 2006-12-11· cited 1,245×
• Holbrook v. Flynn
  Supreme Court· 1986-03-26· cited 1,122×
• Taylor v. Kentucky
  Supreme Court· 1978-05-30· cited 844×
• People v. Stevens
  New York Court of Appeals· 1990-07-10· cited 216×
• Nguyen v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1999-09-22· cited 206×
• State v. Lord
  Washington Supreme Court· 2007-08-30· cited 181×
• State v. Allen
  Washington Supreme Court· 2015-01-15· cited 166×
• People v. Jelke
  New York Court of Appeals· 1954-12-31· cited 155×
• Overstreet v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 2007-11-27· cited 112×
• Plummer v. Rothwax
  New York Court of Appeals· 1984-10-18· cited 112×
• United States v. Farmer
  Second Circuit· 2009-10-08· cited 59×
• People v. Mendola
  New York Court of Appeals· 1957-01-10· cited 59×
• Katz v. Murtagh
  New York Court of Appeals· 1971-04-08· cited 48×
• Nguyen v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 3rd Dist. (Austin)· 1998-08-31· cited 46×
• State v. Franklin
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 1985-03-01· cited 45×
• State v. Speed
  Supreme Court of Kansas· 1998-05-29· cited 44×
• People v. Alvarez
  New York Court of Appeals· 2012-10-30· cited 44×
• Allen v. Commonwealth
  Kentucky Supreme Court· 2009-06-25· cited 37×