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Date Created: 2023-09-15 14:07:39.196747+00
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                               Nebraska Supreme Court Advance Sheets
                                        315 Nebraska Reports
                                                   STATE V. ALLEN
                                                  Cite as 315 Neb. 255

                                        State of Nebraska, appellee, v.
                                          Keith L. Allen, appellant.
                                                    ___ N.W.2d ___

                                        Filed September 15, 2023.   No. S-22-169.

                                             supplemental opinion
                 Appeal from the District Court for Lincoln County: Richard
               A. Birch, Judge. Affirmed.
                  Charles D. Brewster, of Anderson, Klein, Brewster & Brandt,
               for appellant.
                  Michael T. Hilgers, Attorney General, and Jordan Osborne
               for appellee.
                 Heavican, C.J., Miller-Lerman, Cassel, Stacy, Funke,
               Papik, and Freudenberg, JJ.
                  Per Curiam.
                  This case is before us on a motion for rehearing filed by the
               appellee, the State, concerning our opinion in State v. Allen,
               314 Neb. 663, 992 N.W.2d 712 (2023).
                  We overrule the motion, but modify the opinion as follows:
                  In the analysis section, under the subheading “2. Juror
               Misconduct,” we withdraw the second paragraph and substi-
               tute the following:
                        Neb. Rev. Stat. § 29-2101(2) (Reissue 2016) provides
                     that “[a] new trial, after a verdict of conviction, may be
                     granted, on the application of the defendant” for “mis-
                     conduct of the jury” “affecting materially his or her
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      Nebraska Supreme Court Advance Sheets
               315 Nebraska Reports
                     STATE V. ALLEN
                    Cite as 315 Neb. 255

  substantial rights.” In the civil context, we have said
  “misconduct of the jury” does not necessarily mean a
  jury’s bad faith or malicious motive, but means a jury’s
  violation of, or departure from, an established rule or
  procedure for production of a valid verdict. See Loving
  v. Baker’s Supermarkets, 238 Neb. 727, 472 N.W.2d
  695 (1991).
The remainder of the opinion shall remain unmodified.
                      Former opinion modified.
                      Motion for rehearing overruled.