Chambers v. State

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• reversing conviction because juror conducted Internet research about the definition of legal terms and discussed that information, which included misinformation, with the rest of jury during deliberations
• reversing conviction because juror conducted Internet research about the definition of legal terms and discussed that information, which included misinformation, with the rest of jury during deliberations
• new trial required where juror “injected into deliberations extra-judicial information” by sharing the results of an online search regarding the definition of the term “defense of habitation in Georgia law” with other jurors (punctuation omitted)

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Cited by

14 cases in this archive cite this case.

• State of Iowa v. Tyler James Webster
  Supreme Court of Iowa· 2015-06-19· cited 109×
• Burney v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2020-06-29· cited 31×
• Hodges v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2017-11-02· cited 19×
• Weyer v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2015-08-06· cited 11×
• Blake v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2018-12-10· cited 8×
• Griffin v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2021-05-17· cited 7×
• Lloyd v. the State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2016-10-18· cited 5×
• EDGE v. the STATE.
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2018-05-18· cited 5×
• Woodruff v. the State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2016-11-03· cited 4×
• Jamie Lee Weyer v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2015-08-10
• Amended August 18, 2015 State of Iowa v. Tyler James Webster
  Supreme Court of Iowa· 2015-06-19
• State v. Anthony McCargo
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2019-10-25
• Shalita Jackson Harris v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2021-06-30
• Hector Rene Solis v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2024-03-15

Cites

25 cases in this archive are cited by this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• Jackson v. Virginia
  Supreme Court· 1979-10-01· cited 79,490×
• Turner v. Louisiana
  Supreme Court· 1965-01-18· cited 1,063×
• Watkins v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1976-10-05· cited 117×
• Holcomb v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1997-05-12· cited 95×
• Turpin v. Todd
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1997-12-05· cited 92×
• Lively v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1992-10-16· cited 90×
• Henry v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1995-10-16· cited 89×
• Kennebrew v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1996-11-12· cited 72×
• Shaw v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1889-05-20· cited 67×
• Sims v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1996-03-15· cited 64×
• Benham v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2004-01-12· cited 57×
• Lamons v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1986-03-11· cited 45×
• Bobo v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1985-03-15· cited 43×
• Inman v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2006-09-18· cited 42×
• Peterson v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2008-06-30· cited 34×
• Hammock v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2004-02-02· cited 31×
• Lockridge v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1990-11-15· cited 30×
• Steele v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1995-02-10· cited 22×
• Moore v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1984-11-20· cited 17×
• Henley v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2009-06-08· cited 17×