Cook v. State’s Empirical Analysis

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3 state decisions

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1. “. . We have previously held that if counsel wishes to reserve the record during closing argument, the State, when an objectionable statement is made by the prosecuting attorney, it should be called to the attention of the court by timely objection, together with a request that the jury be instructed to disregard the improper statement and in the event that the objection is overruled, an exception should be taken to the ruling of the court, preserved and argued in the motion for new trial. . . . ””

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