In what circumstances have courts ever been found to have improperly coerced a juror?

In People v. Keenan (1988) 46 Cal.3d 478, 250 Cal.Rptr. 550, 758 P.2d 1081 we addressed the issue of alleged coercion due to the trial court's remarks during an inquiry into possible juror misunderstanding or misconduct. There, as here, the defendant claimed that, in obviously stressful circumstances, with assertedly only a single juror holding out against the death penalty, certain of the court's remarks unfairly coerced the minority juror. We found no impropriety. The court's comments in the instant case [52 Cal.3d 238] are even more innocuous than those in Keenan, where the alleged recalcitrance concerned ability or willingness to impose the death penalty.