United States v. Hortensia Navarro-Garcia

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• defining extrinsic evidence as “[e]vidence not presented at trial, acquired through out-of-court experiments or otherwise”
• possibility of prejudice exists “if the extrinsic evidence may have affected the reasoning of even one juror”
• improper extrinsic evidence found where juror shared personal 26 experiences and had personal knowledge of the parties or the issues in the case
• juror conducts out-of-court experiment to duplicate weight of drugs found in defendant's vehicle
• courts do not expect jurors to cast aside their personal experiences during jury deliberations because inevitably jurors must rely on their past personal experiences when hearing the trial, of interpreting evidence in the record, and deliberating on a verdict

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).