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Graham v. Cook

Citations

  • 682 S.E.2d 535
  • 278 Va. 233

How courts have described this case

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  • stating that closing “arguments are not evidence”
  • party’s statement, “I don’t have a problem with that,” 5 indicated party no longer objected to admission of testimony
  • “[T]he purpose of closing argument is to draw the jury’s attention to the body of evidence that has been admitted into the record and to argue reasonable inferences that may be drawn from that evidence.”
  • argument of counsel is not equivalent to presenting evidence

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Judges: Barbara Milano Keenan

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