United States v. Mary Josephine Vasquez

How courts have described this case

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• reversible error committed when trial judge’s file containing some inadmissible evidence left in jury room for four hours of deliberation
• “A trial judge should not investigate the subjective effects of any such breach upon the jurors.”
• \A trial judge should not investigate the subjective effects of any such breach upon the jurors.\
• “[W]e hold that the appellant is entitled to a new trial if there existed a reasonable possibility that the extrinsic material could have affected the verdict”
• reasonable possibility that extrinsic material, such as a court file for the case being tried, was inadvertently left in the jury room and could have affected the verdict
• hold- ing that file containing inadmissible extrinsic material left in jury room for four hours was prejudicial

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).