What is the abuse of discretion standard of review in the context of a jury's questions to the deliberating jury?
California, United States of America
The following excerpt is from People v. Anderson, B292973 (Cal. App. 2020):
We review the trial court's responses to the deliberating jury's questions for abuse of discretion. (See People v. Waidla (2000) 22 Cal.4th 690, 745-746 ["[a]n appellate court applies the abuse of discretion standard of review to any decision by a trial court to instruct, or not to instruct, in its exercise of its supervision over a deliberating jury"]; People v. Kopp (2019) 38 Cal.App.5th 47, 65, review granted Nov. 13, 2019, S257844.)
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