1 Sounds like a monumental screwup. How did the jury end up making such a mess of it?

2 The guy with the most forceful personality was elected jury foreman, and when he acted like an expert, the others fell into line.

...then he decided to show his brilliance off to the public, too. Oops.

-j

3 And, somehow, it turned out that the jury foreman was someone who owned a software patent of, to put it bluntly, dubious validity. Massive screw-up by Samsung even having this guy on the jury at all, unless their Evil Secret Plan was to get the trial thrown out altogether on appeal (which, to be fair, has a pretty good chance of happening now?)

4

I think somewhere in the corporate offices of Apple and its lawyers, multiple voices are screaming every time the jury foreman appears in an interview, trying to get him to shut his mouth.  It seems that every new interview conducted with the man since the verdict has seen him digging himself a deeper and deeper hole to drop into.

I do not believe the bad judgement of jurors is a crime, but this guy has been getting close to being a poster child for everything a juror can intentionally do wrong.  Still not the worst examples available, but that is not a compliment.

5

Bad judgement by a juror is not a crime. But if it can be determined that he had a conflict of interest, and didn't say so when he was being questioned as a candidate, I think that is potentially a crime. (Perjury, if nothing else.)

I don't see how this leads to the whole case being dismissed, however. There is no "double jeopardy" rule in civil law.