What is the effect of a judge's question on a jury's reasoning process?
California, United States of America
The following excerpt is from The People v. Uckele, H032752, No. CC633434 (Cal. App. 2011):
To summarize, though courts may not consider what jurors were thinking, we may consider what the jury was doing. These are separate matters in the eyes of the law. Not "every answer to a judge's question implicates the answering juror's reasoning process...." (People v. Haskett, supra, 52 Cal.3d at pp. 240-241, fn. 11, 3d par.)
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