Is there any case law where a jury was ordered to reconstitute its deliberations after the trial court ordered that the jury had already retired from deliberations to consider the relevant material?
California, United States of America
The following excerpt is from People v. Martinez, E066332 (Cal. App. 2017):
Finally, although the reconstituted jury completed its deliberations in an hour, "the brevity of the deliberations proves nothing." (People v. Leonard (2007) 40 Cal.4th 1370, 1413.) "When, as here, there are no indications to the contrary, we assume that the jurors followed the trial court's instructions and started afresh." (Ibid.; see People v. Williams (2015) 61 Cal.4th 1244, 1280.) The trial court followed the proper course by removing
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