Chapter 20 - § 20.1 • GENERAL OVERVIEW

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§ 20.1 • GENERAL OVERVIEW

Colorado

➢ Deliberation of Jury. "After hearing the charge the jury may either decide in court or retire for deliberation. If it retires, except as hereinafter provided in this section (l), it shall be kept together in a separate room or other convenient place under the charge of one or more officers until it agrees upon a verdict or is discharged. While the jury is deliberating the officer shall, to the utmost of his ability, keep the jury together, separate from other persons. He shall not suffer any communication to be made to any juror or make any himself unless by order of the court except to ask it if it has agreed upon a verdict; and he shall not, before the verdict is rendered, communicate with

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