State v. Palmigiano

Nicholas A. Palmigiano, a convicted murderer and robber serving a life sentence, 1 is here on an appeal from a Superior Court judgment denying his petition for habeas corpus and his motion for a new trial. His claims for relief are premised upon an alternate juror’s affidavit stating that during the course of the trial the jurors who passed on his guilt or innocence read the reports of the trial appearing in the daily press, and in addition “discussed the witnesses and the evidence and rendered their opinions to each other on a daily basis and sought to persuade each other to their individual…