United States of America Ex Rel. Craig S. Owen v. Hon. Daniel J. McMann Warden of Auburn State Prison, Auburn, New York

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• holding that the verdict against the defendant lacked due process because some jurors had informed others that the defendant had a bad character and described specific instances of his misbehavior which were unrelated to the crimes charged and which had not been received in evidence
• “To the greatest extent possible all [evidence, including expert opinion] must pass through the judicial [process], where the fundamental guarantees of procedural law protect the rights of those accused of crimes.”
• extra-record information inter alia that the defendant had been in trouble all his life.
• \To resort to the metaphor that the moment a juror passes a fraction of an inch beyond the record evidence he becomes `an unsworn witness' is to ignore centuries of history and assume an answer rather than to provide the basis for one.\

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