Gregory Grotemeyer v. Rodney Hickman

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• finding no impropriety where “the jury foreman, referring to her experience as a medical doctor, opined that [the defendant’s] mental disorders caused him to commit his crime, and that he would receive treatment as part of a sentence”
• it is “well established law that a juror may not bring into the jury room evidence developed outside the witness stand”
• “Counsel ordinarily learn during voir dire what a veniremember does for a living, and use peremptory challenges to avoid jurors whose experience would give them excessive influence.”
• “The Sixth Amendment entitles a defendant to an ‘impartial’ jury, not an ignorant one.”
• “When a witness’s account is as unlikely as the events portrayed in a Marc Cha- gall painting, the jury is entitled to reject the testimony in its entirety, dis- believing both the reasonable and the unreasonable aspects.”

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