Watson v. State’s Empirical Analysis

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1 state decisions

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1. “Hostility of a prosecutor towards a defendant is not, in and of itself, the constitutional equivalent of prosecutorial vindictiveness. The adversarial nature of every prosecution involves hostility to a greater or lesser degree. The essence of prosecutorial vindictiveness is retaliation by a prosecutor against a defendant for the defendant’s exercise of a constitutional or statutory right, and the chilling effect that such retaliation has on the free exercise of those rights.”

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