racial-bias-in-jury-deliberations

QUESTION PRESENTED FOR REVIEW Where disclosure of jurors’ statements in their deliberations shows racial bias that may have tainted the verdict in a criminal trial, must the district court, in order to fulfill the requirement the Court imposed in Pefia-Rodriguez v. Colorado, 580 U.S. __, 187 S.Ct. 855 (2017) to ferret out the bias and its impact, conduct, at a minimum, an evidentiary inquiry of the racially biased jurors, as the Sixth Circuit has held, or instead may the district court preclude examination of the biased jurors, as the Eleventh Circuit ruled in petitioner’s case? ii INTERESTED PARTIES The caption contains the names of all of the parties interested in the proceedings. iii