State v. Balisok

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• noting that the policy behind not inquiring is to promote stable and certain verdicts and allow the jury to freely discuss the evidence
• jury’s simulation of self-defense claim was not misconduct merely because the juror simulating the defendant’s actions did not match the defendant’s proportions
• A jury's reenactment during deliberations was not misconduct where the jury used only evidence and exhibits admitted at trial and the reenactment applied \common sense and the normal avenues of deductive reasoning.\
• extrinsic evidence is information outside all the evidence admitted at trial
• jurors are expected to use their common sense when reaching a verdict
• consideration of extrinsic evidence by a juror is misconduct

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).