Legal Opinion
State v. Crandall
Court of Appeals of Minnesota
Decided March 20, 1990No. C5-89-1186PublishedCited by 14 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
LANSING, Judge.
James Crandall appeals his conviction of criminal sexual conduct in the second degree, alleging that an alternate’s inadvertent presence in the jury room following submission of the case to the jury constitutes reversible error.
FACTS
James Crandall was charged in Hennepin County District Court with criminal sexual conduct in the first degree. At trial, the case was heard by 12 jurors and an alternate. Through inadvertance, the alternate was not discharged when the jury retired to consider its verdict. After the alternate had been with the jury in the jury room for…
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- Johnson v. StateSupreme Court of Georgia · 1975
- United States v. WatsonCourt of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit · 1982
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