Court Opinion

ID: 9849485
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-09-24 04:40:50.220569+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T09:18:19.821128
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PEDERSON, Justice,
dissenting.
Both the judgment of conviction and the order denying Kringstad’s motion for new trial should be affirmed. There may very well be authority for the proposition that the trial judge can be made into a “super-juror number thirteen” by an appropriate motion using the proper “magic words.” But it violates my sense of justice for the members of this court to become “super-jurors numbered fourteen, fifteen, sixteen, seventeen and eighteen.”
Time restraints prevent me from doing more than noting my objection. In my view there was no reversible error; a defendant is not entitled to a perfect trial; no showing has been made that trial court discretion has been abused. See State v. Allen, 237 N.W.2d 154 (N.D.1975); State v. Iverson, 187 N.W.2d 1 (N.D.1971); State v. *312Marmon, 154 N.W.2d 55 (N.D.1967); State v. Carroll, 123 N.W.2d 659 (N.D.1963); and State v. Moore, 101 N.W.2d 579 (N.D.1960).