287 Ga. App. 593 - Wright v. State’s Empirical Analysis

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4 state decisions

Most-quoted passages

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1. “was made not by the State's counsel, who could have been reprimanded, or by a witness, whose testimony could have been excluded from evidence, but by the trial judge himself, who, as the impartial arbiter, was in a unique, powerful position to influence jurors.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Ruiz v. State

2. “[t]o reverse a conviction, the evidence of the defendant's election to remain silent must point directly at the substance of the defendant's defense or otherwise substantially prejudice the defendant in the eyes of the jury. [Cit.]”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Ruiz v. State

3. “the intent of the court's questions and comment was to rehabilitate the State's case and make an improper implication based on Wright's refusal to provide a post-arrest statement,”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Ruiz v. State