The opinion of the court was delivered by
FISHER, J.A.D.
In this appeal, defendant claims the right to a new trial because a juror, upon realizing during deliberations that he knew defendant, failed to make that fact known to the trial judge and, as a result, participated in the rendering of the guilty verdict. Although the juror should have immediately brought this to the trial judge's attention, we affirm because defendant also realized during the trial...
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