2012 Ark. App. 310 - Williams v. State’s Empirical Analysis
2012
Citation profile
9
cited by 9 later decisions
1
states following
November 2018
most recently cited
9 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on 131 Ill. App. 3d 141 - People v. Steffens · State v. Johnson · Moore v. State · 685 So. 2d 346 - State v. Carter · Commonwealth v. Austin
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Declaring a mistrial is a drastic remedy and proper only where the error is beyond repair and cannot be corrected by any curative relief. The circuit court should resort to mistrial only where the error complained of is so prejudicial that justice cannot be served by continuing the trial or when the fundamental fairness of the trial itself has been manifestly affected. Because the circuit court is in a better position to determine the effect of a remark on the jury, it has wide discretion in granting or denying a motion for a mistrial, and its discretion will not be disturbed except where there is an abuse of discretion or manifest prejudice to the movant. In reviewing a mistrial motion, we look at all developing circumstances that surround an incident to determine whether a manifest abuse of discretion occurred.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Baumann v. State
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