PER CURIAM.
Writ granted in part; otherwise denied. The district court's judgment denying relator's claim that two jurors improperly consulted and read aloud from the Bible while deliberating his penalty is reversed. This case is remanded to the district court for purposes of conducting an evidentiary hearing at which relator will have the burden of proving that improper consultation occurred and that it had a "`substantial and injurious effect or influence in determining...
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