Pool v. C., B. & Q. R.’s Empirical Analysis

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1 federal appellate · 4 state decisions

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1. “■‘There is no right more sacred than the right to a fair trial. There is no wrong more grievous than the negation of that right. An unfair trial adds a deadly pang to the bitterness of defeat. Now, ilie human mind is constituted so that what one himself publicly declares touching any controversy is much more potent in biasing liis judgment and confirming his predilections than similar declarations which he may hear uttered by another person. When most men commit themselves publicly to any fact, theory, or judgment, they are too apt -to stand by their own public declarations in defiance of evidence. This pride of opinion and constancy belong to human nature. Where, therefore, a juryman talks outside of the jury room about a case pending and undetermined before him, he gives the clearest evidence that he is not an impartial juror. The very discussion of any matter anywhere by a juror elsewhere than in the jury room tends to the forming of false impressions and prejudgments. Nor will it do for a moment to accept the statement of the juror that what he has said or heard has not affected his judgment or influenced his verdict. Almost any juror, when detected in such misconduct, and arraigned for it, will disclaim the influence upon his own mind of what he has uttered in violation of his duty.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Ewers' Adm'r v. National Imp. Co.