Olszewski v. Spencer

How courts have described this case

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• “Independent and adequate state grounds exist where the state court declined to hear the federal claims because the defendant failed to meet a state procedural requirement.”
• judge’s act of dismissing juror to care for wife, after ex parte communications with juror’s son and his wife’s doctor, did not violate defendant’s Sixth Amendment rights
• prosecutor’s improper personal vouching of defendant’s guilt may constitute a due process violation
• severity of misconduct is viewed in terms of intent and pervasiveness
• factors to consider include whether the statements were isolated or deliberate
• strength of government's evidence outweighed effect of misstatements

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).