shall not be permitted to take their notebooks out of the courthouse. The bailiff

Wyoming Rules of Criminal Procedure

Rule: 24.3

Jurisdiction: WY

Bluebook Citation: Wyo. R. Crim. P. 24.3

or clerk shall collect all jurors’ notebooks at the end of each day of trial and shall return jurors’ notebooks when trial resumes. After the trial has concluded and the jurors have completed their deliberations, the bailiff or clerk shall collect all jurors’ notebooks before the jurors are excused. The bailiff or clerk shall promptly destroy the contents of the notebooks, except that one copy of the contents of the juror notebooks, excluding jurors’ personal notes and annotations, shall be preserved and retained as part of the official trial record. History: Added October 26, 2000, effective March 1, 2001. Bailiff’s duties. — While a trial judge erred in allowing an officer who participated in an investigation of defendant to act as bailiff dur- ing defendant’s trial, the error was harmless because there was absolutely no evidence in the record that the bailiff did anything as bailiff other than the routine, administrative matters the bailiff was charged with performing under Wyo. R. Crim. P. 24.1(a). Majors v. State, 2011 WY 63, 252 P.3d 435, 2011 Wyo. LEXIS 65 (Wyo. 2011).

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