Opinion for the Court filed by Circuit Judge RANDOLPH.
RANDOLPH, Circuit Judge.
James Yarborough appeals his conviction, after a jury trial, for illegally possessing a firearm as a convicted felon. Yarborough argues that his conviction was the product of coercion resulting both from the district judge's ex parte and allegedly intrusive interchanges with the jury, and from the judge's delivery of a nonstandard anti-deadlock charge.
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