New murder trial for man in Maryland

From Judgepedia

January 11, 2010

Annapolis, Maryland: Due to a technicality on the judge's part, a Maryland man will get a second trial after being convicted of killing LaToya Taylor in 2006. The judge's mistake was not following a century old procedure known as "hearkening." Hearkening is what it is called when the judge asks jurors to confirm the verdict by asking them to "hearken to their verdict;" this is the alternative to polling the jurors.^[1]

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