Darrell Ewing v. Connie Horton
Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
1Opinion of the Court
ROGERS, Circuit Judge.
Two months after Darrell Ewing was convicted of murder, a juror filed an affidavit accusing two fellow jurors of conducting after-hours internet research about the case and discussing their findings during deliberations. Without holding an evidentiary hearing to determine what, if any, prejudicial impact that extracurricular fact-finding had on the jury, the state trial and appellate courts considered the information duplicative of the evidence at trial and the incident harmless. That was constitutional error, as everyone now agrees. The question is how best to remedy…
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