Brandley v. State

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• holding that the prosecutor asking the jurors during the punishment phase of the trial to place themselves in the shoes of the child victim‘s father was harmless error
• holding that the prosecutor asking the jurors during the punishment phase of the trial to place themselves in the shoes of the child victim’s father was harmless error
• holding that asking jurors to imagine how they would feel if they had lost their daughter was improper argument because it was essentially “plea for abandonment of objectivity”
• prosecuting attorney suggested to jury to “think about how you would feel if you lost your children”
• prosecuting attorney suggested to jury to “think about how you would feel if you lost your children”
• explaining arguments that requests jurors to “abandon their objectivity” are improper

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).