United States v. Alexander Egbuniwe, Celestine Emere Anyanwu

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• during course of deliberations, juror learned that girlfriend had been arrested and mistreated by police
• during course of deliberations, juror learned that girlfriend had been arrested and mistreated by police
• affirming district court’s dismissal of juror where the district court “determined that the juror could no longer be fair and impartial after he was informed during jury deliberations of alleged police misconduct involving his girlfriend”
• dismissal proper where juror's impartiality in doubt after juror's girlfriend was arrested by police
• source of anti-prosecution bias stemmed from a particular incident of an alleged “false arrest and rough treatment of [a juror’s] girlfriend by law enforcement officers”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).