STATE v. GATHERCOLE

No. 14-0816.

877 N.W.2d 421 (2016)

STATE of Iowa, Appellee, v. Theodore Ray GATHERCOLE II, Appellant.

Supreme Court of Iowa.

March 25, 2016.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mark C. Smith , State Appellate Defender, and Vidhya K. Reddy , Assistant Appellate Defender, for appellant.

Thomas J. Miller , Attorney General, Kevin Cmelik and Mary A. Triick , Assistant Attorneys General, Jerry Vander Sanden , County Attorney, and Nicholas Maybanks , Assistant County Attorney, for appellee.


Midtrial publicity is not a new phenomenon. See State v. Walton, 92 Iowa 455, 458-59, 61 N.W. 179, 180 (1894) (concluding when jurors viewed newspaper editorials about a criminal trial during their deliberations, "they meddled and interfered with the order of the court in a very reprehensible and unseemly manner"). But "in...

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