Maras v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis

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1 state decisions

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1. “we are charged with refraining from entertaining suspicion or engaging in conjecture that the jury verdict may have resulted from compromise, mistake, or even carelessness-after all, 'juries may indulge in precisely such motive or vagaries' and 'Verdicts cannot be upset by speculation or inquiry into such matters.'”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Probus v. Commonwealth

2. “As recently as three years ago, this Court reaffirmed our commitment to the historic rule prohibiting the use of post-trial juror statements to impeach a facially valid verdict-a rule, as we said in Commonwealth v. Abnee, that is 'firmly rooted in the early years of Kentucky jurisprudence.'”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Probus v. Commonwealth

3. “[i]n sum, [Probus's] challenge is 'the one form of attack on a verdict that has always been forbidden in Anglo-American criminal law': an attempt 'to probe [the jury's] process of deliberation and find out how ... the jury reached its verdict.'”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Probus v. Commonwealth