J. W. v. STATE OF FLORIDA

How courts have described this case

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• concluding that on a motion for new trial, federal district courts may not deny a claim of improper jury influence without first holding a hearing
• rejecting the notion that a federal district court is “obligated to conduct a full-blown evidentiary hearing every time an allegation of jury tampering is raised”
• Federal district courts must hold a hearing “when faced with . . . credible allegations of prejudicial outside influence on the jury.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).