Hempt Bros. v. United States

How courts have described this case

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• “If the trial judge finds that the jury had before it prejudicial material, the inquiry is complete and the conviction must be reversed.”
• no evidence permitted from juror as to mental process of juror or jury or method by which the verdict is reached
• \It is a recognized principle that a federal court is not bound by a state ... interpretation of federal laws....\
• jurors incompetent to testify about a matter occurring within the jury room even though one juror, a paralegal, had influenced the voting of other jurors
• warrant need only satisfy federal constitutional requirements rather than state law in federal prosecution although “resulting search is ‘state’ in character”
• “It is a recognized principle that a federal court is not bound by a state .. . interpretation of federal laws.... ”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).