Akia L. Overton v. Discover Bank

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• concluding that a bailiffs comments that a defendant was guilty and that the Supreme Court would correct “anything wrong” violated the defendant’s Sixth Amendment right to an impartial and unprejudiced jury
• holding that juror misconduct may also violate a defendant's Sixth Amendment right to confront witnesses against him
• holding that a bailiff’s statements to several jurors regarding the defendant’s guilt were prejudicial and violated the defendant’s rights of confrontation and cross- examination
• holding that a defendant is “entitled to be tried by 12, not 9 or even 10, impartial and unprejudiced jurors.”
• holding that juror misconduct may also violate a defendant’s Sixth Amendment right to confront witnesses against him
• holding that reversal was warranted where a bailiff told jurors that the defendant was guilty because the bailiff's statements were prejudicial and violated the defendant's constitutional rights

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