State v. Devoney

In violation of the court’s express instruction that it should totally disregard any question or reference to DeVoney’s having had a speeding ticket for going twenty miles per hour over the posted speed limit, a year prior to his trial for DUI, at least two jurors discussed that incident during the jury deliberations. One juror used the speeding ticket reference as a ground to assert DeVoney had a “bad driving record” in order to pressure the other into agreeing to a guilty verdict. The foreperson of the jury testified that another juror told him during their deliberations:

He said, well, you…