State v. Corsaro

How courts have described this case

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• holding that “the trial court should either have declared a recess until” an “apparently intoxicated juror” could resume deliberations “or declared a mistrial on the open charges”
• holding that “the trial court should either have declared a recess until” an “apparently intoxicated juror” could resume deliberations “or declared a mistrial on the open charges”
• cautioning that “the deliberative process ... must be insulated from influences that could warp or undermine the jury’s deliberations and its ultimate determination”
• cautioning that “the deliberative process . . . must be insulated from influences that could warp or undermine the jury’s deliberations and its ultimate determination”
• noting that New Jersey permits an alternate juror substitution, but “the jury must be instructed in clear and unequivocal terms that it is to begin its deliberations anew”
• prohibiting substitution of a juror after partial verdicts had been returned because the fact-finding underlying those partial verdicts would have predisposed the substituted juror toward guilt on the open charges

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).