Legal Opinion

People v. Tinsley

New York Court of Appeals

Decided March 22, 1983PublishedCited by 7 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

*992OPINION OF THE COURT

Memorandum.

The order and judgment of the Appellate Division in these two actions should be affirmed.

Defendant presses several issues. We reject his contention that it was error at his first trial for the trial court sua sponte to have declared a mistrial and that in consequence defendant was unconstitutionally exposed to double jeopardy on his second trial. On the first trial, after the jury had been charged and sequestered and the alternate jurors apparently dismissed, juror No. 9, without notifying anyone, walked away from the other jurors, disappeared overnight, and…

2Cases cited2 opinions

  1. People v. MichaelNew York Court of Appeals · 1979
  2. People v. DickersonNew York Court of Appeals · 1980

3Cited by7 opinions

  1. Enright v. SiedleckiNew York Court of Appeals · 1983
  2. People v. BaileyNew York Court of Appeals · 2018
  3. Robles v. BambergerAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1996
  4. People v. AlmanAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 2020
  5. People v. BurgosAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1985

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