Legal Opinion
State v. Figueroa
Supreme Court of New Jersey
Decided April 26, 2007PublishedCited by 35 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Hoens
In 1980, we announced guidelines to govern trial courts faced with the questions of whether and how to direct juries that had reported themselves to be deadlocked to continue their deliberations. State v. Czachor, 82 N.J. 392, 413 A.2d 593 (1980). In particular, we concluded that the charge then generally utilized was inherently coercive, and we directed trial courts to use instead an alternate form of the charge that would avoid pressuring dissenting jurors into surrendering their “honest convictions” about guilt or innocence merely to reach a unanimous verdict. Id. at 405 n. 4, 413 A.2d…
2Cases cited33 opinions
- Allen v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1896
- State v. RamseurSupreme Court of New Jersey · 1987
- United States v. John Fioravanti, Nicholas Panaccione, and Angelo Pepe, Nicholas PanaccioneCourt of Appeals for the Third Circuit · 1969
- United States v. Cecil RobinsonCourt of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1977
- State v. CzachorSupreme Court of New Jersey · 1980
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3Cited by35 opinions
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