P. v. Layral CA4/1
Defendant Gilbert Wayne Layral was convicted of one count of lewd acts on M.C., a child under the age of 14, and one count of lewd acts on M.G., also a child under the age of 14. The court sentenced Layral to a determinate term of 10 years and an indeterminate term of 15 years to life in prison.
Layral argues that the judgment must be reversed due to juror misconduct. Toward the end of the deliberation process, one of the jurors mentioned that as a small child he had touched an older boy's penis at the older boy's request and that he still remembered the incident although it had occurred approximately 50 years earlier. The juror did not mention this during voir dire. The trial court found the juror's failure to disclose this incident was inadvertent.
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