Johnson v. State

Petitioner Shawn Johnson was tried before a jury in the Circuit Court for Baltimore City and convicted of robbery, conspiracy to commit armed robbery, and related offenses. *141At trial, the State admitted, among other evidence, two inoperable cell phones allegedly used by Petitioner’s cousin, Stanford Reid, who was an admitted conspirator and later a State’s witness at Petitioner’s trial. The cell phones, along with other evidence, were sent to the jury during deliberations. While deliberating, the jury sent a note to the court disclosing that one of the jurors inserted his own battery into at…