Oliver v. Quarterman

How courts have described this case

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• holding a jury’s consultation of Bible passages was an external influence barred by the Sixth Amendment
• noting, in the context of a juror reciting passages from the Bible on obeying the law and punishing murderers to a small group of jurors during deliberations, that external influences on a jury are a potential violation of the Sixth Amendment
• jury allegedly consulted Bible passages in deciding whether to impose the death sentence
• “[I]nternal influences . . . provide no basis for relief.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).