PER CURIAM.
This appeal presents a claim of double jeopardy. A federal grand jury had indicted appellant Bridewell and ten others for gambling, in violation of 18 U.S.C. §§ 371 and 1955 (1976). A jury trial was begun. Six witnesses had been called and had testified when one of the jurors approached the trial judge's law clerk concerning a conversation he had the previous evening on the merits of legalized gambling. The District Judge that night met with...
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