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Are broader financial markets in a massive speculative bubble? To determine whether this contact was innocuous or whether it triggered the presumption explained in Remmer I we must turn to the factors the Supreme Court deemed important. These factors are: 1 any private communication; 2 any private contact; 3 any tampering; 4 directly or indirectly with a juror during trial; 5 about the matter before the jury.

See Remmer I, U. It is these factors that establish the law about the presumption of prejudice. We believe that the district court construed Remmer I, U. The evidence discloses that Cheek proved every factor that triggers a presumption of prejudice. As the district court found, Alexander contacted Davis, the juror. He communicated with Davis, telling him what Davis later recognized was a lie.

Alexander sought to have Davis believe that he had been sent to drive Davis to the courthouse. Because he was a juror in the trial of Rhodes and Cheek, Davis reasonably believed that his presence at the courthouse was necessary in a matter pending before the jury. When Alexander drove Davis to his office to meet with Rhodes, the subsequent appearance of Rhodes was a contact that, as Davis immediately recognized, was with a defendant on trial in a case in which he was serving as a juror.

Rightly he perceived that Rhodes and his confederates had attempted to bribe him. The district court emphasized that Davis never spoke to Rhodes, nor Rhodes to him; that Davis never saw any money; that no money was offered to Davis; and that Davis was not threatened.

Although these observations are relevant, they do not negate the presumption of prejudice. In this respect the sequel to Remmer I is instructive.

The Court remanded Remmer I for an evidentiary hearing. Again, the Supreme Court granted certiorari. The district court's record on remand, reviewed in Remmer v. The juror reported this approach to the district court, which directed the FBI to investigate. After the trial, the juror stated that there was some question that he had been approached and that he had been under terrific pressure. Ultimately the district court held that the incident was harmless and had no effect on the juror's judgment, integrity, or state of mind.

The district court found the juror to be a "forthright and honest man. We think this evidence, covering the total picture, reveals such a state of facts that neither [the juror] nor anyone else could say that he was not affected in his freedom of action as a juror. From [the juror's] testimony it is quite evident that he was a disturbed and troubled man from the date of the [extrajudicial] contact until after the trial He had been subjected to extraneous influences to which no juror should be subjected, for it is the law's objective to guard jealously the sanctity of the jury's right to operate as freely as possible from outside unauthorized intrusions purposefully made.

The Court recognized that this improperly placed a strain on the juror. It did not rely on this interview, however, as a basis for its decision in Remmer II. There the Court emphasized that the extrajudicial contact disturbed and troubled the juror, and it refused to speculate about the effect of the agent's interview.

Remmer II, U. In neither case did a defendant speak to the juror. In neither case did the juror see any money, and the juror was not threatened. In neither case was the word "bribe" uttered, but the jurors in both cases recognized that the encounter was an attempt to bribe. In Cheek, Davis was devastated and afraid as a result of the communication by Alexander and the contact with Rhodes.

In Remmer II, the juror was disturbed and troubled by the extrajudicial communication. In neither case was the presumption of prejudice dispelled. The presumption is not conclusive, but "the burden rests heavily upon the Government to establish The Court supplemented this precept by admonishing that a court must examine the "entire picture," including the factual circumstances and the impact on the juror.

To implement the heavy obligation of the party who seeks to rebut the presumption of prejudice, we have prescribed that the proof must establish that there is no reasonable possibility that the verdict was affected by the contact.

Stephens, F. In Cheek, the government offered no rebuttal evidence. Instead it argues that relief should be denied because Cheek filed the habeas petition eight years after the trial ended.

We reject this argument. In agreement with the district court, we note that there is no evidence that Cheek knew of the extrajudicial contact before He then proceeded in a diligent manner after he obtained a statement from Rhodes admitting the contact.

The government also argues that the "clearly erroneous" standard is the proper test for review of the district court's finding that Alexander's and Rhodes' contact with Davis did not prejudice Cheek's right to a fair trial. Based on this standard, the government urges us to conclude that the district court properly dismissed Cheek's petition. In support of its position, the government cites five cases, none of which deals with a third party's extrajudicial contact with a juror.

These cases are United States v. Hines, F. Spain, U. Yount, U. Witt, U. Keohane, U. None of these cases purports to modify the presumption of prejudice applicable to federal cases arising from "any private communication, contact, or tampering" with a juror, which is explained in Remmer I, U.

None of these cases relieves the government of the "heavy burden" of proving that the improper contact was harmless. Both the government and the district court have misapplied the law explained in both Remmer cases. The district court properly admitted testimony, including that of Davis, regarding the factual circumstances of Davis' encounter with Alexander and Rhodes and his consultation with Harding.

In this situation such a "probing factual inquiry" was not only permissible but necessary. Haley, F. Nevertheless, when a party seeks to attack or support a verdict, Rule b prohibits all inquiry into a juror's mental process in connection with the verdict.

See Tanner v. Commonwealth, F. During the evidentiary hearing, the assistant United States attorney elicited Davis' view about the sufficiency of the evidence, asking Davis: "And did you listen to all of the evidence that was put forth by both sides and consider it in reaching your own personal verdict?

The district court overruled Cheek's objection. See Cheek, F. Later, when dismissing Cheek's petition because of its view that the presumption required by Remmer I, U.

By asking Davis whether he had listened to and considered all the evidence, the government was delving into Davis' mental processes about the sufficiency of the evidence in reaching his personal verdict. Such an inquiry exceeded the strict limits imposed by Rule b.

See Tanner, U. Greer, F. By relying on Davis' mental processes in connection with the verdict when formulating its findings of fact, the district court erred.

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