Rodriguez v. US Department of Justice

How courts have described this case

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• holding that defendant had “no right to a special poll to inquire how -9- or why each juror arrived at the [unanimous] verdict” (quoting Shepperson v. Commonwealth, 19 Va. App. 586, 592, 454 S.E.2d 5, 9 (1995))
• affirming the trial court’s refusal to declare a mistrial even though the juror reported that she had been bullied during deliberations
• finding the trial court did not err in upholding the jury verdict without “investigat[ing] possible juror misconduct” where defendant did not demonstrate “a probability of prejudice to the accused”
• “There is no requirement that a jury arrive at a verdict without discord.”
• “[W]hen a party fails to obtain a ruling on a matter presented to a trial court, there is no ruling [for this Court] to review on appeal.” (second alteration in original) (quotation marks and citation omitted)

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).