HEANEY, Circuit Judge.
The district court granted defendants' motion for a new trial based on the jury fore-person's one-page affidavit stating that on more than one occasion he and other jurors overheard the judge at a bench conference discussing evidence of the defendants' involvement in other, serious, criminal activity. We remand the case to the district court to conduct an evidentiary hearing in accordance with this opinion. We retain jurisdiction in this matter...
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