Henry Anderson v. David Miller, Superintendent

How courts have described this case

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• holding that a reasonable juror, standing in the shoes of the jurors who had been threatened by another juror, would not have thought themselves to be facing a physical assault if they refused to vote for conviction
• holding in ruling on a petition for a writ of habeas corpus that the jury’s conduct of yelling during deliberations did not violate the defendant’s constitutional rights
• affirming the district court’s denial of habeas relief where juror affidavits alleged name-calling and a shouting match in which court officers had to intervene during jury deliberations
• explaining there are “universally recognized reasons for shielding jury deliberations from post-trial review”
• refusing to overturn conviction despite finding that the complaining jurors “felt themselves to be under pressure, perhaps even under duress, to vote in favor of conviction” and “might have experienced severe emotional distress within the jury room”
• “possible internal abnormalities in a jury will not be inquired into except in the gravest and most important cases ”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).