State v. Wheel

How courts have described this case

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• noting that Section 152 gives the Attorney General inquest powers to review and investigate actions by government officials outside of their authority
• relying on federal case law in interpreting Vermont rule of evidence because Vermont rule is “virtually identical to its federal counterpart and federal cases ‘are an authoritative source for the interpretation of identical provisions of the Vermont Rules’ ” (citation omitted
• defendant must show more than prior knowledge of case; must show jurors had “fixed bias” of “har bored prejudicial preconceived notions” about case
• motions for new trial based on juror misconduct are addressed to trial court’s sound discretion
• assistant judge convicted of false swearing
• assistant judge convicted of false swearing

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).