[Alberta's Child]

Harlan’s attorneys challenged the sentence after discovering five jurors had looked up Bible verses, copied some of them down and then talked about them behind closed doors.

Something about the wording of this sentence looks odd to me. There is nothing in the article that says these jurors actually brought anything into the jury deliberation room -- just that they "copied them down" and "talked about them behind closed doors."

I'm wondering if there's more (or less) to this than meets the eye.

[Stone Mountain]

Something about the wording of this sentence looks odd to me. There is nothing in the article that says these jurors actually brought anything into the jury deliberation room -- just that they "copied them down" and "talked about them behind closed doors."

Well, if they brought notes from the outside from any source to help them decide the case, they were breaking the rules.