What is the test for a jury to ask a question about some aspect of the evidence adduced at trial?
Ontario, Canada
The following excerpt is from R. v. Mohamad, 2018 ONCA 966 (CanLII):
An important decision for judges to keep in mind when asked a question by a deliberating jury about some aspect of the evidence adduced at trial is R v. Olbey, 1979 CanLII 61 (SCC), [1980] 1 S.C.R. 1008.
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