Court Opinion

ID: 9552952
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-07 19:19:35.674021+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T15:29:24.993263
License: Public Domain

ROSE, Chief Justice,
specially concurring.
I concur in that I accept the transcribed waiver as the required writing under the rule, and for the further reason that any possible error would appear to be harmless under the facts of this case.
I, therefore, concur, but with the attendant admonition that trial-court judges should in no circumstances again accept a proffered jury waiver that is not in a writing which is in addition to the transcribed oral waiver. I concur with the further charge that trial judges should, in addition to the written waiver, explain in detail the nature of the jury versus the non jury trial process so that, in waiving the jury trial, the record will reflect that the defendant has understood the consequences of his or her act.