In re Estate of McLaughlin

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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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