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a single







                                                                                    It is unclear if
                                  new trial); Chambers v.
                                                                 extrajudicial information.
                                                                       new trial is required even if
                                                                                    any other





                                                                                                                                            discussed above, it is the aggregation of
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                                        296, 320 (Cal. 2014) (demonstrable bias of
                                              Calderon, 151 F.3d at 973 (emphasis added).
                                                                                                                                      demonstrates that she was unfit to have served.







                                                                                          "made it impossible for the appellant to receive a fair trial").
                                                     juror would violate [a defendant's] right to a fair trial."
                                                                                                             v. Cecil, 655 S.E.2d 517,527 (W. Va. 2007) (cumulative effect of
                                                                                                                                Misc. 2d 1087, 1091 (Sup. Ct. N.Y. Cnty. 1983) (cumulative effect of
                            trial court were correct that eleven jurors had not relied on extra-judicial
                                                     Dyer v.

                                                           defendants a verdict by impartial, indifferent jurors[, t]he bias or prejudice of
                                                                                                the defendant's, and juror who conducted internet searches related to the case,
                                                                       only one juror is likely to have been influenced by
                                                                                    jurors were privy to Juror 12's improper texts or
                                        single juror was sufficient to require
                     information from a twelfth juror., nothing in the record allowed such a finding in
                                                                                                                         juror misconduct required a new trial, despite People's argument that examining
                                                                 Because "[t]he Sixth Amendment guarantees criminal
                                                                                                                                      See, e.g., People v. Sanders, 120
                                                                                                                   the acts separately led to the conclusion that defendant was not prejudiced); State
                                                                                                             errors by juror
                                                                                                       who advised others that children's testimony should be given greater weight than
                                                                                                                                            Juror 12's cumulative transgressions that
                                                                              internet search, see, e.g., R.19, but that does not mitigate Juror 12's misconduct; a
                                                           even
                                                                                                                                four acts of
                                              See also People v. Hensley, 330 P.3d
                                  State, 739 S.E.2d 513, 519-20 (Ga. Ct. App. 2013) (even if
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