People v. Messenger

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• holding that reversal was not required since the prosecutor’s improper questioning was curable by a limiting instruction
• adopting the Sixth Circuit rule “that a jury’s use of a dictionary to define a relevant legal term is error, but it is not prejudicial per se”
• involving a motion for a mistrial based on alleged juror misconduct
• no prejudice where definition of “premeditation” was not substantively different from court’s instruction

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).