Johnson v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1989
Citation profile
2
cited by 2 later decisions
1
states following
May 2015
most recently cited
2 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Cross v. State · Birmingham Electric Co. v. Cleveland · 40 Ala. App. 641 - Bullard v. State · Ex parte State ex rel. Attorney General · 57 Ala. App. 234 - Binion v. State
Most-quoted passages
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“'Trial judges ordinarily are loath to limit inferential argument which has any connection with the evidence even though far-fetched.... So long as counsel does not travel out of his case and confines statements to reasonable inferences deducible from the evidence, he should not be controlled.' Roberts [v. State ], 346 So.2d [473] at 477 [ (Ala.Crim.App.1977) ]. "[I]t would be dangerous to accord to the presiding judge the right and power to intervene, and declare authoritatively when an inference of counsel is or is not legitimately drawn. This is for the jury to determine, if there be any testimony on which to base it.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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