Commonwealth v. Fidler

By its application for further appellate review the Commonwealth seeks reversal or modification of an Appeals Court decision pertaining to the impeachment of jury verdicts through evidence both of "extranepus” outside influences on the jury and of intra-jury communications. This issue was raised by the defendant’s motion for a new trial, which was denied by the trial judge. The Commonwealth also urges this court to speak to the issue of the conduct of post-verdict interrogation of jurors by litigants or by counsel. We are in agreement with the Appeals Court in concluding that a hearing must…