The following excerpt is from U.S. v. Reyes-Perez, 956 F.2d 1169 (9th Cir. 1992):
4 The right to have a jury deliberating free of unduly coercive influences is arguably one of those "constitutional rights so basic to a fair trial that [its] infraction can never be treated as harmless error." Chapman v. California, 386 U.S. 18, 23 (1967).
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