Steele v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• finding juror misconduct, where juror copied encyclopedia’s definitions of manslaughter and read her notes to jury
• reversing jury verdict and granting new trial because juror looked up encyclopedia definitions of legal terms as well as sentencing information and discussed that information with fellow jurors, who relied on it during deliberations
• reversing jury verdict and granting new trial because juror looked up encyclopedia definitions of legal terms as well as sentencing information and discussed that information with fellow jurors, who relied on it during deliberations
• juror copied encyclopedia's definitions of manslaughter and read her notes to jury, which relied on that information in reaching its verdict
• juror copied encyclopedia’s definitions of manslaughter and read her notes to jury, which relied on that information in reaching its verdict
• defendant who participated in gunfight was a party to the death of innocent bystander, even though fatal shot was fired by rival in the fight

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

18 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Kennebrew v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1996-11-12· cited 72×
• Parnell v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2003-02-20· cited 48×
• Sears v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1997-12-03· cited 34×
• Chambers v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2013-03-29· cited 18×
• Glover v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2001-09-17· cited 14×
• Mitchell v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1997-02-17· cited 9×
• Blake v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2018-12-10· cited 8×
• Riddle v. Beker
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1998-05-01· cited 6×
• State v. Aguilar
  Court of Appeals of Arizona· 2010-05-07· cited 6×
• Davis v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1998-11-12· cited 5×
• Taylor v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2009-02-19· cited 4×
• Armstrong v. Gynecology & Obstetrics of DeKalb, P.C.
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2014-06-24· cited 3×
• Lynn v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2018-03-15· cited 2×
• Hernandez v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2009-03-27· cited 1×
• Shalita Jackson Harris v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2023-12-13
• Philmon Chambers v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2013-03-29
• Carlethia Armstrong v. Gynecology & Obstetrics of Dekalb, P. C.
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2014-06-24
• Herbert Martin Lynn v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2018-03-15

Cites

20 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Jackson v. Virginia
  Supreme Court· 1979-10-01· cited 79,490×
• Edge v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1992-02-04· cited 236×
• Lackey v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1980-09-16· cited 80×
• Hill v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1982-10-05· cited 60×
• Lamons v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1986-03-11· cited 45×
• Kimbro v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1980-01-08· cited 36×
• Waugh v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1993-12-02· cited 28×
• Foster v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1994-06-13· cited 25×
• Thayer v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1988-11-01· cited 25×
• Moore v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1984-11-20· cited 17×
• Shehee v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1983-07-12· cited 17×
• Chandler v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1994-04-18· cited 17×
• Coker v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1993-06-23· cited 14×
• Fain v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1993-11-29· cited 13×
• Jordan v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1993-02-22· cited 11×
• Tate v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1991-01-07· cited 10×
• Scott v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1984-03-07· cited 10×
• Rogers v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1992-10-06· cited 9×
• Shaw v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1993-04-27· cited 6×
• Howard v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1994-05-23· cited 2×