State v. Webster
Annotate this CaseAfter a jury trial, Defendant was found guilty of second-degree murder. Defendant appealed, arguing that his conviction should be vacated because of juror misconduct and juror bias and because of assorted errors in the district court’s evidentiary rulings. The court of appeals reversed Defendant’s conviction on the issue of juror bias. The Supreme Court vacated the decision of the court of appeals and affirmed the judgment of the trial court, holding (1) the evidence does not support a finding of juror misconduct in this case; (2) the district court did not abuse its discretion in finding that a juror was not actually biased when, prior to the verdict, the juror clicked “like” on a Facebook comment by the victim’s stepmother which stated, “Give me strength”; and (3) the district court did not commit prejudicial error in its evidentiary rulings.
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