United States v. John Bagnariol, United States of America v. Gordon L. Walgren, United States of America v. Patrick Gallagher

How courts have described this case

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• holding that juror’s independent research for references to nonexistent company created by FBI as a front for its investigation did not require new trial where the information had no logical connection to any material issue in dispute at trial
• listing curative instructions as one means of resolving juror misconduct of bringing in extrinsic evidence
• “Reviewing courts will not disturb jury verdicts on appeal when extraneous information relates only to issues not material to the guilt or innocence of the defendant.”
• targeting politicians, political operatives and persons in the gaming business in investigation of political corruption
• rejecting a claim of prejudice from juror misconduct where such a conclusion “would require an assumption that the jury members reached an irrational conclusion, lacking in common sense.”
• discounting claim of prejudice where extraneous information was something “any reasonable juror already knew.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).