Outside influence on jury
Daugherty v. Harlan
In brief
- Where it stands
- Dismissed
Petition denied.
- What it’s about
- Tony Daugherty says a juror falsely claimed to know him and his family, expressed fear if Daugherty were acquitted, and urged other jurors to share that fear.
- Who it affects
- The order ends Daugherty’s request for Supreme Court review without resolving his jury-impartiality claim.
Summary: written with AI from the case record.
What it's about
He asks whether the juror’s statements brought an outside influence into jury deliberations and violated his Sixth Amendment right to an impartial jury.
The case concerns whether the reported remarks count as an outside influence under the Sixth Amendment’s guarantee of an impartial jury.
Question presented
Whether a juror’s false statement that he knows the defendant and his family, combined with expressions of fear should the defendant be acquitted and exhortations that other jurors should feel the same, constitute an “external influence” on the jury that deprived Petitioner his right to an impartial jury as guaranteed by the Sixth Amendment?
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