Gregory Dean Caliendo v. Warden of California Men's Colony

How courts have described this case

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• stating that the presumption of prejudice applies when the unauthorized conduct or contact is possibly prejudicial
• granting habeas relief where three deliberating jurors chatted amiably and at length with the critical prosecution witness, a police officer, in an uncontrolled setting
• considering a juror’s testimony that the jury’s external communication with a police officer left them with a favorable opinion of the officer
• considering a juror’s testimony that the jury’s external communication with a police officer left them with a favorable opinion of the officer
• “Nothing in Mattox suggests that for the rebuttable presumption to attach, the substance of the extrinsic contact must factually relate to the trial.”
• “Nothing in Mattox suggests that for the rebuttable presumption to attach, the substance of the extrinsic contact must factually relate to the trial.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).