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Juror misconduct is when the law of the court is violated by a member of the jury while a court case is in progression or after it has reached a verdict.〔"USLegal Definitions"〕 Misconduct can take several forms: * Communication by the jury with those outside of the trial/court case. Those on the outside include “witnesses, attorneys, bailiffs, or judges about the case”.〔 * When the jury member brings outside evidence that they may have found themselves into the trial which has not been allowed by the judges or lawyers and is used to create bias on the part of the juror. This new information may be used to influence their final decision.〔 * “Conducting experiments regarding theories of the case outside the court’s presence”.〔 ==Bias== "An inclination of temperament or outlook; especially: a personal and sometimes unreasoned judgement"〔(Merriam-Webster. An Encyclopedia Briannica Company (2012). )〕 An example mentioned in Eltis's article "Courts, Litigants and the Digital Age. Law, Ethics and Practice" is a juror in Manchester who tweeted openly throughout a rape trial. She was found to be tweeting to her friends and asking them to poll whether they thought that the man being tried was guilty or not; whether he committed the rape or not.〔Eltis, Karen. "Courts, Litigants and the Digital Age. Law, Ethics and Practice". University of Ottawa. Columbia Law School. p. 108.〕 Another example was the case of Wardlaw v. State where a member of the jury, against the direct instructions by the judge to not use the Internet, looked up the definition of the illness that the individual on trial was stated to be suffering. This jury member also looked up symptoms and whether lying was an effect of suffering with this mental illness.〔Eltis, p. 109.〕 The juror did learn that lying was in fact a "symptom"; however, she chose to gather this information during the discussion to find a verdict.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Juror misconduct」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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