809 So. 2d 841 - Apicella v. State’s Empirical Analysis

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11 state decisions

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1. ““A trial court’s determination on whether to submit written charges to the jury in a complex case will not be overturned absent a showing of an abuse of discretion. See Wright v. State, 740 So.2d 1147 (Ala.Cr.App.1999) (sending written charges to the jury during deliberations was not an abuse of discretion). See also Gaddy v. State, 698 So.2d 1100, 1147 (Ala.Cr.App.1995), aff'd, 698 So.2d 1150 (Ala.), cert. denied, 522 U.S. 1032 , 118 S.Ct. 634 , 139 L.Ed.2d 613 (1997) (denying a request to send written charges back with the jury during its deliberations during the guilt phase in a capital murder trial was not error).””

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

2. “[p]arties have a right to have questions answered truthfully by prospective jurors to enable them to exercise their discretion wisely in exercising their peremptory strikes.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 982 So. 2d 565 - Brown v. State

3. “`[O]nly convictions can be used to negate the statutory mitigating circumstance of no significant history of prior criminal activity.'”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
   e.g. 896 So. 2d 584 - Clark v. State