Shotikare v. United States

How courts have described this case

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• holding that the discharge of a juror for misconduct after insulting and threatening another juror did not entitle the defendant to a mistrial
• upholding removal of a juror who verbally harassed and physically intimidated her colleagues
• “The authority ... conferred on the court is to be exercised ... only when ‘extraordinary circumstances’ and ‘just cause’ are present.”
• “The judge properly excused the juror for [mis]conduct, and not because of her views or to break a deadlock.”
• “To remove a juror because he is unpersuaded by the [g]overnment’s case is to deny the defendant his right to a unanimous verdict.” (internal brackets and quotation marks omitted)
• “The jurors’ views of the case, the back and forth among them concerning the evidence or the application of the law to the facts . . . are off limits.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).