Campbell v. State

In this capital murder case in which the State had given pretrial notice seeking the death penalty, 1 after four days of trial the jury began deliberating just after 7:00 in the evening. Three hours later, the jury informed the court that it had not reached any verdict but that the jurors wished to suspend their deliberations and go home. The following day was a scheduled holiday, Veteran’s Day, so the break would be three days before deliberations could be resumed on Monday. Defendant objected to releasing the jury and requested that jurors be sequestered. He argued there had been media…