Martin James Kipp v. Ron Broomfield, Acting Warden
Whether clearly established federal law requires that a habeas petitioner's claim that his constitutional rights were violated because a juror read passages from the Bible to other jurors during capital-sentencing deliberations be analyzed under the presumed prejudice rule of Mattox v. United States, 146 U.S. 140, 150 (1892), and Remmer v. United States, 347 U.S. 227, 229 (1954), because the Bible-reading is an impermissible external influence on the jury's deliberations and verdict.
Whether clearly established federal law requires that a habeas petitioner's claim that his constitutional rights were violated because a juror read passages from the Bible to other jurors during capital-sentencing deliberations be analyzed under the presumed prejudice rule of Mattox v. United States, 146 U.S. 140, 150 (1892), and Remmer v. United States, 347 U.S. 227, 229 (1954)