Where a juror omits information on a written questionnaire, and that information presents a valid basis for challenge for cause, waiver is not presumed when counsel do not question the unfinished written reply at voir dire; the juror misconduct is structural error when it results in the vote of a single potentially biased juror.
Juror's lack of disclosure of de minimis contact with witness whose credibility was not at issue was sufficiently investigated by a single consultation with witness; the juror did not have to be recalled.
Drug quantities appropriately established by amounts of fertilizer purchases.
Potential juror's dozing off was sufficient neutral reason to avoid Batson challenge.
Preemptively testifying to prior convictions on direct waives appeal against admission of the convictions.
Potentially improper statements in prosecution's closing were isolated and minor comments in a much larger web of evidence.
http://media.ca1.uscourts.gov/pdf.opinions/16-2386P-01A.pdf
Since 2011. An occasional commonplacing of the U.S. Circuit Courts of Appeal.
Neither an authoritative statement of the law nor legal advice. Quick work.