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- Title: State North Dakota v. Mark Thiel
- Author : Supreme Court of North Dakota
- Release Date : January 28, 1987
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 64 KB
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The defendant, Steven parker, was found guilty of first degree sexual assault and was sentenced to 10 to 16 years imprisonment. During the testimony of the alleged victim, S.M., the court placed a large screen in the courtroom to block parker and S.M. from seeing one another. We conclude that the screen unduly compromised the presumption of innocence fundamental to the right to a fair trial. The presence of the screen in the courtroom, in an obvious and peculiar departure from common practice, could have suggested to the jury that the court believed S.M. and endorsed her credibility, in violation of parkers right to a fair trial. because other means were available that would have protected S.M. without depriving parker of his right to a fair trial, the screen was not justifiable. because we cannot discount the effect the screen had on the jurys verdict, we reverse parkers conviction.
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