Markell Jakar Brown v. State of Florida

How courts have described this case

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• explaining that removal of juror before deliberations “would be some evidence” that prejudice did not occur
• “The jurors’ responses to these questions must be evaluated in the context of the heavy burden that falls upon the government . . . .”
• “We emphasize that we do not adopt a per se rule requiring that a mistrial be declared whenever jury taint originates from within the jury itself.”
• “We cannot accept the jurors’ own characterization of these conversations as innocuous or joking.”
• “If the evidence as described in Shapiro’s offer of proof was insufficient as a matter of law to support a duress defense the trial court was correct in excluding that evidence.”
• expressly declining to adopt a per se rule

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).