Court Opinion

ID: 9792634
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-31 02:32:31.832515+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T09:34:13.587602
License: Public Domain

CORCORAN, Justice,
specially concurring:
I concur in the result reached by the majority.
The trial court abused its discretion by denying the defendant’s request for a hearing. A hearing should have been held so that jurors and other witnesses could have testified at a time when recollections were most fresh. I believe, however, that a new judge can hold a hearing at which available jurors and other witnesses can testify about the past events. I do not believe that it is necessary or indispensable to have the testimony from all jurors before relief could be granted or denied to defendant. We are remanding so that the trial court can have a hearing to elicit the facts. We should not prejudge what the evidence will be.