Supreme Court Rules On A Defendant’s Right To Be Present When A Trial Court Responds To Jury Questions

Supreme Court Rules On A Defendant’s Right To Be Present When A Trial Court Responds To Jury Questions

SUPREME COURT NEWS RELEASE he state Supreme Court has upheld a Farmington man’s sex crime conviction, ruling there was no effect on the jury’s verdict by improper communications between the trial court and the jury outside of the defendant’s presence. The Court concluded that Joshua Freeman had a constitutional right to be present when the trial court addressed two questions from the jury after it had started to deliberate in his case but the er…