United States v. Jessie Kenneth McKinney

*1021GOLDBERG, Circuit Judge.

In this criminal case the appellant entreats us to invade the cloister of the jury room to determine whether the verdict of guilty in the court below may have been influenced by prejudicial newspaper publicity. With equal fervor the government implores us not to enter the cloister, invoking the aged and hallowed principle of the sanctity of jury deliberations. Eschewing blind obedience to this salutary principle, we reject the government’s imploration. Firm in our belief that this is one of those rare occasions which demand a ventilation of the jury’s precincts in the…