"the giving of multiple `Allen' charges is to be avoided and may constitute reversible error..."
How later courts described this case
- "the giving of multiple `Allen' charges is to be avoided and may constitute reversible error..."
- harmless error analysis applies when trial judge answers jury's note without defendant or his counsel being present
- jury instructed that “[i]t is important that a decision ... be reached here, and I really see no good reasons why a decision cannot be reached”
- two ABA instructions not reversible error
Written by the judges who cited it.
The opinion
This record has no opinion text. It is a disposition such as a denial of certiorari, kept so the case can be found by name and citation.