Gros v. Holmes

How courts have described this case

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• test for whether juror misconduct merits new trial is whether misconduct prejudiced defendant to extent that defendant has not received fair trial
• not improper for court to ask if juror’s ability to determine defendant’s guilt or innocence affected by knowledge that juror’s friend might be defendant’s friend
• [t]he trial court is vested with wide discretion in determining the competency of jurors to serve, and that judgment will not be disturbed absent a showing of an abuse of discretion
• only nine days between the crime and the identification

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).