Limone v. Massachusetts

How later courts describe this case

• accidental contact between a juror and a witness in a court house stairwell during a recess was of no consequence
• "[the judge] was entitled to exercise judgment, within a substantial range of discretion, concerning the capacity and suitability of each of them intelligently to perform the functions of a juror"
• jury correctly instructed that each defendant’s involvement in conspiracy must be individually determined at joint trial, but one cannot conspire alone, and no defendant may be convicted of conspiracy unless at least one other is also guilty of conspiracy