Robert A. Johnson v. Jack R. Duckworth, Warden

How courts have described this case

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• stating that the privacy and secrecy of the jury is protected so as to foster free debate among the jurors
• in state court trial alternate's presence during jury deliberations did not deny appellants a fair trial
• in state court, trial alternate's presence during jury deliberations did not deny appellants a fair trial
• in state court trial alternate’s presence during jury deliberations did not deny appellants a fair trial
• in state court, trial alternate’s presence during jury deliberations did not deny appellants a fair trial
• presence of alternate juror not invasion of jury’s privacy; “presence of strangers” argument does not apply to alternate jurors

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).