HANKINS v. U.S.

No. 07-CF-1015.

3 A.3d 356 (2010)

Keith HANKINS, Appellant, v. UNITED STATES, Appellee.

District of Columbia Court of Appeals.

Decided September 2, 2010.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Peter H. Meyers , Washington, DC, for appellant.

Anne Y. Park , Assistant United States Attorney, with whom Jeffrey A. Taylor , United States Attorney at the time, and Roy W. McLeese III , Elizabeth Trosman and Nihar R. Mohanty , Assistant United States Attorneys, were on the brief, for appellee.

Before GLICKMAN and THOMPSON, Associate Judges, and PRYOR, Senior Judge.


GLICKMAN, Associate Judge:

At appellant Keith Hankins's murder trial, the jury sent a total of three notes reporting that it was hung. Shortly before the third note, a juror complained privately to the courtroom clerk during a break that one juror had stopped participating in the deliberations. When, at the trial judge's direction, the clerk spoke to the foreperson to ensure that any future complaints would be made to the court in writing, the foreperson unexpectedly...

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