Meixelsperger v. State

Our review of the record and the law fails to demonstrate any merit to appellant’s points on appeal except as to appellant’s point one concerning the submission of the prosecutor’s trial brief to the jury during their deliberations. We reverse on that point and remand for a new trial.

At the conclusion of the trial of this case, the prosecutor’s trial brief containing the state’s entire case against the appellant somehow reached the jury during their deliberations, apparently at the time the various exhibits were handed the jury. The trial brief included, but was not limited to, various notes…