Hinton v. United States

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• explaining that a trial court erroneously exercises its discretion where it fails “to exercise its judgment in a rational and informed manner”
• recognizing \the trial judge’s superior ability to observe the demeanor of the juror” and stating that it is not this court’s \function ... to second-guess a reasonable judgment of the trial court”
• noting that a juror’s testing of the government’s case does “not necessarily mean he disbelieved it. And even if he disbelieved it, his mind might have been changed in deliberations with his fellow jurors”
• “[R]emoving a juror because of. his views of the evidence [is] one of the principal evils against which Rule 24(e)’s restrictions are directed.”
• determining that “[tjhere are sound reasons to adhere to [the rule that a defendant should not be required to show prejudice]... when the trial court has jeopardized a defendant’s basic jury trial rights by erroneously replacing an empaneled juror with an alternate in violation of Rule 24(c)”
• “[I]f the government’s case is strong and there is no reason apparent in the record to think the erroneously removed juror (continued . . .

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