United States v. Ralph F. Vitale

How courts have described this case

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• instructing that district courts should be reluctant “to haul jurors in after they have reached a verdict in order to probe for potential instances of bias, misconduct or extra- neous influences.”
• involving attorney correspondence confessing previously undisclosed connections between a juror and the prosecution
• stating a hearing is required “when there is clear, strong, substantial and incontrovertible evidence, that a specific, nonspeculative impropriety has occurred which could have prejudiced the trial of a defendant.” (internal quotation marks and citation omitted)
• reviewing Confrontation Clause claims de novo

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).