Hess v. State’s Empirical Analysis

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1 state decisions

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1. “[t]he prosecutor was implicitly asking the jurors to reject Hess's defense, not because the defense lacked evidentiary support, but instead because of ... his unsupported accusation that defense attorneys commonly resort to underhanded or misleading tactics.”

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

2. “improperly denigrated the defense lawyer's trial strategy by asserting that defense attorneys in general commonly engage in false 'vilification' of victims of domestic violence”

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

3. “sufficiently central to the trial so as to rob it of its fundamental fairness.”

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