GRIECO

v.

UNITED STATES

Citator

Cited By (46 total)

• Butler v. United States, 317 F.2d 249 (8th Cir. 1963)
  …or to prevent reversal due to the exertion of extraneous, prejudicial influences upon the jury. Mattox v. United States, 146 U.S. 140, 13 S.Ct. 50, 36 L.Ed. 917 (1892). See also United States v. Grieco, 2 Cir., 261 F. 2d 414 (1958), cert. denied, 359 U.S. 907, 79 S.Ct. 582, 3 L.Ed.2d 572 (1959); Jorgensen v. York Ice & Machinery Corporation, 2 Cir., 160 F. 2d 432 (1947), cert. denied, 332 U.S. 764, 68 S.Ct. 69, 92 L.Ed. 349 (1947). However, the cases indicate that a juror’s testimony revealing the reaso…
• Gov't of the Virgin Islands v. Beaumont Gereau, 523 F.2d 140 (3d Cir. 1975)
  …pressures and intra-jury influences may not be impeached by juror evidence, so also they constitute no grounds for overturning a verdict. See cases cited at notes 26 and 27, supra; United States v. Grieco, 261 F. 2d 414 (2d Cir. 1958), cert. denied, 359 U.S. 907, 79 S.Ct. 582, 3 L.Ed.2d 572 (1959). Nor, indeed, is a verdict invalid merely because the jurors’ generalized knowledge about the parties, or some other aspect of the case, is an ingredient of the decision. Though “the specific guarantees of an impa…
• United States v. Green, 523 F.2d 229 (2d Cir. 1975)
  …erdict does not warrant a new trial. Jorgenson v. York Ice Machinery Corp., supra at 435. Cf. Grace Lines, Inc. v. Motley, 439 F. 2d 1028, 1031-32 (2d Cir. 1971); United States v. Grieco, 261 F. 2d 414, 415 (2d Cir. 1958) (per curiam), cert. denied, 359 U.S. 907, 79 S.Ct. 582, 3 L.Ed.2d 572 (1959) (juror’s motive for agreeing to the verdict is not grounds for reversal, absent actual coercion). Appellants argue in the alternative that wholly aside from the affidavit, they are entitled to a new trial on the…