DENVER -- The relatively new practice of allowing jurors to submit questions for witnesses during criminal and civil trials, upheld elsewhere in the country in federal courts, is facing a new legal test before Colorado's highest court.
Attorneys for Yvonne Medina, convicted in a domestic violence case, contend her right to a fair trial was violated because her judge allowed a witness to answer a juror's question that led to speculative testimony.
The Colorado Court of Appeals upheld the conviction and Medina appealed. On Monday, the Colorado Supreme Court will hear arguments in Medina's case, the first of two cases scheduled for arguments this week asking essentially the same question: whether juror questions violate a defendant's right to a fair trial.
Details here from the AP via the Washington Post.