Legal Opinion
Patten v. Newton
Supreme Court of New Hampshire
Decided March 31, 1960No. 4736PublishedCited by 7 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtKenison, C. J.
This is a case of an expeditious jury.
It appears from the notes of the stenographer that the jury retired to the jury room in the afternoon at 3:13 and returned their verdict at 3:21. This period of eight minutes might be described as the portal-to-portal time since some portion of this period was required to go to and from the jury room. There was also testimony of a deputy sheriff that the period of jury deliberation was “slightly over three minutes.”
Curiously enough the question whether “the brevity of the jury’s deliberations established inadequate consideration of the issues” has…
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