Opinion ID: 1129186
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Heading Rank: 2

Heading: Whether the Circuit Court Improperly Failed to Investigate Potential Juror Misconduct.

Text: ¶ 5. Younger's counsel, Cynthia Stewart, claims she witnessed the jury's foreman in possession of a cellular phone during the jury's return to the courtroom to announce their verdict and after the verdict was read immediately informed the judge of the juror's possession of a cell phone. Neither of these assertions are supported by the record. It is the responsibility of Younger to present to us a record sufficient to show the occurrence of the error she asserts in order to show that the issue was properly presented to the circuit court and timely preserved for appeal. King v. State, 857 So.2d 702, 714 (Miss.2003) (quoting Acker v. State, 797 So.2d 966, 972 (Miss.2001)); See also Pulphus v. State, 782 So.2d 1220, 1224 (Miss. 2001) (Issues cannot be decided based on assertions from the briefs alone. The issues must be supported and proved by the record.)