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State v. Brown, 457 N.J. Super. 345 (App. Div. 2018).  Deliberating jurors often request that trial testimony be read back to them.  As Judge Sabatino noted n his opinion in this case today, the Supreme Court has held that “absent some unusual circumstance, those requests should be granted.”  But what is to be done when a jury requests that counsel’s summation, which is not evidence, be read back?  That was the issue in the published portion of Judge Sabatino’s decision in this drug case, where the jury asked to hear defense counsel’s summation again. ...