297 Ga. App. 476 - Wingfield v. State’s Empirical Analysis
2009
Citation profile
3
cited by 3 later decisions
1
states following
October 2017
most recently cited
3 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Shelton v. State · 245 Ga. App. 284 - Navicky v. State · 268 Ga. App. 55 - Ballard v. State · 265 Ga. App. 440 - Meridy v. State · 285 Ga. App. 315 - Davis v. State
Most-quoted passages
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“As a general rule, prosecutors are granted wide latitude in conducting closing argument, and defining the bounds of such argument is within the trial court’s discretion. This wide latitude encompasses the prosecutor’s ability to argue reasonable inferences raised by the evidence.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“As the prosecutor's statement was a reasonable inference drawn from the evidence, the trial court did not err in overruling [defendant's] objection to the statement or in failing to rebuke the prosecutor[.]”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
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