Petition of the day

By Kate Howard
on Apr 11, 2017 at 11:23 pm

The petition of the day is:

Issues: (1) Whether allegations of extraneous juror contact arising post-verdict can compel a trial court to question a juror about his subjective mindset in addressing the possibility of any prejudice; and (2) whether an external contact with the jury requires a court to apply a presumption of prejudice, whether or not the contact was intentional, involved in a verbal communication, concerns a matter pending before the jury, or whether or not the court even knows what actually transpired.