I like this line of thinking!
Yes!
Good thought. She could come back and say, “Based on the research I did...”
And a true Karen would say, “You told us not to research THIS case. So I didn’t do that. I just researched Wisconsin law and previous legal cases and what all this meant. Oopsie!”
If she’s replaced with an alternate, we’d get (we hope!) a Packers fan gun-toting guy and they’d say NOT GUILTY across the board.
WIll see.
If the ‘tainted’ the jury deliberation with outside info... it’s a mess. More like a mistrial without prejudice.