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← 552 A2D 543 - State v. Nielson

State v. Nielson’s Empirical Analysis

1989

Citation profile

1
cited by 1 later decisions
1
states following
November 1994
most recently cited

1 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on State v. Hurd · State v. Chattley · State v. Wyman · State v. Dodge · State v. Whiting

Most-quoted passages

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  1. “[A] defendant who seeks to prejudice his own case by [contact with a juror], and keeps that contact secret until an unfavorable verdict is returned, cannot claim to be prejudiced by his own misdeed.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage

How this case has been treated — in progress

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