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STATE v. SMITH

No. M2010-01384-SC-R11-CD

418 S.W.3d 38 (2013)

STATE of Tennessee v. William Darelle SMITH.

Supreme Court of Tennessee, at Nashville.

September 10, 2013.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Emma Rae Tennent (on appeal), Joan A. Lawson and J. Michael Engle (at trial), Nashville, Tennessee, for the appellant, William Darelle Smith.

Robert E. Cooper, Jr. , Attorney General and Reporter; William E. Young , Solicitor General; Brent C. Cherry , Assistant Attorney General; Victor S. Johnson, III , District Attorney General; Chris Buford and Katy Miller , Assistant District Attorneys General, for the appellee, State of Tennessee.

OPINION

WILLIAM C. KOCH, JR., J., delivered the opinion of the Court, in which GARY R. WADE, C.J., JANICE M. HOLDER, CORNELIA A. CLARK, and SHARON G. LEE, JJ., joined.

This appeal concerns the appropriate response when a trial court learns during a jury's deliberations that a juror exchanged Facebook messages with one of the State's witnesses during the trial. A criminal court in Davidson County declined the defendant...

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