New Mexico Supreme Court· 4/23/1987

State v. Sena

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736 P.2d 491
105 N.M. 686

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holding that the statement of one juror alone does 8 not indicate that extraneous material reached the jury and affected their verdict
recognizing that there must be a reasonable 19 possibility that the matter prejudiced the defendant
holding that the district court did not abuse its discretion by denying a motion for an evidentiary hearing because the affidavit alleging misconduct “does not indicate that extraneous material reached the jury”
reasoning that 11 the district court did not err in failing to hold an evidentiary hearing if competent 12 evidence to establish a preliminary showing of prejudice was not found to exist
stating that to support 12 an evidentiary hearing based on jury tampering and bias, a defendant “must make a 13 preliminary showing [with] competent evidence” (internal quotation marks and 14 citation omitted)
involving a juror’s statement during deliberations about guilt of the defendant and that this view was not based on anything the juror heard in the courtroom

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Judges: Scarborough, Stowers, Ransom

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