United States v. Gary Bush

How courts have described this case

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

• “Balancing the risk that a juror’s question may be preju- dieial against the benefit of issue-clarification will almost always lead trial courts to disallow juror- questioning.”
• “Balancing the risk that a juror’s question may be prejudicial against the benefit of issue-clarification will almost always lead trial courts to disallow juror questioning, in the absence of extraordinary or compelling circumstances.”
• providing that juror questioning should be \strongly discourage[d]\
• recommending that the judge ask the question
• “It is difficult for jurors to be both active participants in the adversarial process, embroiled in the questioning of witnesses, and detached observers, passing on the credibility of witnesses and the plausibility of the facts presented.”
• juror questions should be 1

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).