BROWN

v.

ILLINOIS

Citator

Cited By (20 total)

• United States v. Webster, 750 F.2d 307 (5th Cir. 1984)
  …39] pering. See Grooms v. Wainwright, 610 F. 2d 344, 348 (5th Cir.) (“Moreover, a juror’s statement that ‘[from] what I heard already he’s guilty’ ... before the defendant presents any evidence does not reflect serious prejudice____”), cert. denied, 445 U.S. 953, 100 S.Ct. 1605, 63 L.Ed.2d 789 (1980). At any rate, we do not find it necessary to decide if a presumption of prejudice should be applied in all cases of this nature. The trial court handled the McCall incident as if a presumption of prejudice exi…

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• United States v. Darby, 744 F.2d 1508 (11th Cir. 1984)
  …03 S.Ct. 1884, 76 L.Ed.2d 813 (1983). In Edwards, the court observed: [T]his court has not imposed a stringent duty of investigation upon a district judge under comparable circumstances. Grooms v. Wainwright, 610 F. 2d 344 (5th Cir.), cert. denied, 445 U.S. 953, 100 S.Ct. 1605, 63 L.Ed.2d 789 (1980). Instead, “[t]he judge’s decision whether to interrogate the jury about juror misconduct is within his sound discretion, especially when the alleged prejudice results from statements made by the jurors themselv…
• United States v. Yonn, 702 F.2d 1341 (11th Cir. 1983)
  …context of the broad discretion afforded a trial judge confronted with such an allegation of juror misconduct. See United States v. Ed [*1345] wards, 696 F. 2d 1277 (11th Cir.1983); Grooms v. Wainwright, 610 F. 2d 344, 347 (5th Cir.), cert. denied, 445 U.S. 953, 100 S.Ct. 1605, 63 L.Ed.2d 789 (1980); c.f. United States v. Phillips, 664 F. 2d 971, 999 (5th Cir.1981), cert. denied, 457 U.S. 1136, 102 S.Ct. 2965, 73 L.Ed.2d 1354 (1982) (more stringent duty of inquiry is imposed on trial court when there is an…