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· 6/7/1983

United States v. Edwin Thomas Barrett

Citations

  • 703 F.2d 1076

How courts have described this case

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

  • holding that the trial court has a duty to investigate when a juror directly informs the court that he had been sleeping during trial
  • holding that trial court’s failure to ‘‘conduct a hearing or [to] make any investigation into the [sleeping juror] question’’ was abuse of discretion
  • holding that the trial court has a duty to investigate when a juror directly informs the court that he had been sleeping during trial
  • explaining that the witness's \degree of attention was undoubtedly high\ because she was the victim of the robbery
  • listing factors considered as part of a totality of the circumstances analysis to determine reliability of the identification
  • failing to conduct hearing or investigate when juror reported that he had been sleeping was October 29, 2024 CONNECTICUT LAW JOURNAL Page 11 350 Conn. 251 OCTOBER, 2024 259 State v. Outlaw abuse of discretion

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Judges: Boochever, Choy, Tang

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