State v. Riley (Majority)
Annotate this CaseAfter a jury trial, Appellant was convicted of kidnapping. Appellant was sentenced to life imprisonment. Appellant filed a motion for new trial based on juror misconduct, alleging that a certain juror had used her cell phone to post on a social media website during jury deliberation in violation of the circuit court’s instructions not to do so. After a hearing, the circuit court granted Appellant’s motion for new trial, concluding that by posting to Facebook, the juror had disregarded and violated the court’s clear orders and that, as a result, Appellant had not received a fair trial. The Supreme Court dismissed the State’s appeal, holding that the Court did not have jurisdiction over the appeal, as it turned on whether the circuit court’s findings were supported by the unique facts in this case and did not involve the correct and uniform administration of the law.
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