Lonny Slade Glover v. Minnesota

Whether an unrecorded ex-parte communication between a trial judge and a deadlocked jurywhere the physical note of the communication was '/A/-/ subsequently lost-violates a defendant’s Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments ; .z. • right to be present at every critical stage of trial and constitutes structural ' error requiring automatic reversal, an issue on which the federal circuits are A deeply divided? t... 2;When a trial court restricts a pro se defendant’s access to the sole piece of evidence necessary to prepare a defense, does the Sixth Amendment require a searching inquiry into whether the restriction renders the right of self­ representation illusory, as some circuits hold, or does a deferential, prejudicebased review suffice, as other circuits maintain? LIST OF PARTIES (X) All parties appear in the caption of the case on the cover page. RELATED CASES Minnesota Supreme Court: State v. Glover, No. A23-1144 (Final Judgement September 29, 2025). Unpublished/Not Recorded. Minnesota Supreme Court: State v. Glover, No. A23-1144 (Order Denying Review, September 24, 2025), Unpublished/Not Recorded. Minnesota Court of Appeals: State v. Glover, No. A23-1144 (Opinion, July 14,

Unpublished/Not Recorded. Koochiching County District Court: State v. Glover, File No. 36 CR-22-348 (Post Conviction Evidentiary Hearing, November 1, 2024, and subsequent denial of relief). Koochiching County District Court: State v. Glover, File No. 36 CR-22-348 (Original Trial and Conviction, January 12, 2023).