Is a jury required to produce a written verdict form indicating whether it found defendant guilty of criminal activity beyond a reasonable doubt?

California, United States of America


The following excerpt is from People v. Easley, 187 Cal.Rptr. 745, 33 Cal.3d 65, 654 P.2d 1272 (Cal. 1982):

Defendant advances the additional and related argument that the jury should have been required to complete a written verdict form indicating whether it found defendant guilty of the alleged criminal activity beyond a reasonable doubt. Because we have decided, in the preceding section of this opinion, that each juror may form his own conclusion as to defendant's guilt of other criminal activity, it follows that no written verdict on this subject is required. In addition, we have held that the failure to require that the jury file a written finding as to which aggravating circumstances it relied on does not render the California death penalty statutes unconstitutional. (People v. Jackson (1980) 28 Cal.3d 264, 316-317, 168 Cal.Rptr. 603, 618 P.2d 149.) A similar analysis is applicable here.

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