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- noun Plural form of
readback .
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Examples
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Certainly, in a complicated white collar case like this, you would expect requests for readbacks, although certainly the length of the deliberations here is, I think, about what you might expect.
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That said, there is still some betting that this jury came back very quickly without any questions of substance to the judge, without any readbacks, without any clarifications.
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There are even some judges who don't allow readbacks of testimony or of explanations of any legal instructions.
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And I just think we need to know what those questions are and what the readbacks were.
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Yesterday, they were only at it for two days (SIC), so clearly, they had a lot of work to do today with these readbacks, but haven ` t made the decision as of yet, and they ` re going home to spend time with their families over the weekend.
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We don ` t know if -- how many readbacks there were.
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Michael Jackson, obviously, has not been present for any of these readbacks.
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GRACE: You know, that ` s incredible to me, Ted Rowlands -- we were discussing it here on the set with a prosecutor and a defense attorney -- that they would have readbacks, the jury would be brought in with no Michael Jackson sitting there, making eye contact with them.
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Now, when they went home at 2: 30 this afternoon, basically, what we heard is they had asked no questions, no requests for readbacks, nothing.
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So it certainly makes sense that they would want to have some readbacks.
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