If a few posts are to be believed, sounds like it might be different in Arizona. Seems odd to me, never heard of that, but perhaps since they are allowed to ask questions to each witness?
All juries in this country are entitled to review all the evidence. Evidence includes trial testimony. BUT, it is up to the judge's descretion whether or not what testimony transcripts the judge will allow them to review and how much. No, it is not likely that any judge would allow a deliberating jury to have ALL trial transcripts of testimony or even a lot of them or even a lot of the testimony given by one witness if they spent a lot of time on the stand. What any judge generally allows is sections of testimony concerning a specific answer given by a witness or point that was made.
Yes, I realize that one of the attorneys here said they wouldn't be given testimony transcripts, but I have to believe that they were referring to all of them or large amounts of them or the entire testimony of a certain witness, etc. It IS up to a judge's descretion as to what testimony transcripts a deliberating jury gets to review, and it is NOT likely that a judge would refuse their request of a small section of a witness's testimony concerning a specific question/answer or point. It is also highly unlikely that this judge would refuse such a request by the jury considering she's bent over backward during the whole trial to make sure that anything that she does or doesn't do could be reason for an appeal.
Additionally, in one post by one of the attorneys here it was said that the jury can request to review testimony but that they never knew of a case in Maricopa where this was granted. That does not indicate in any way that a deliberating jury isn't ALLOWED to review trial testimony, and as long as it's a small section of testimony especially concerning a specific question/answer by a witness I see no reason why a judge, and particularly THIS judge, would refuse, and it IS up to the judge's own descretion even if the jury were to request to review a witness's entire testimony.
The point here is that some people are claiming that a deliberating jury is not allowed to review ANY trial testimony, and that is simply not true - it is up to the descretion of the judge as to what, if any, requests to review testimony are granted. Is it likely that this jury would be granted review of say, ALV's entire testimony? Very likely not. Is it likely that this jury would be granted review of say, a certain question/answer of a witness's testimony? Very likely yes.
