Neil v. Ford

How courts have described this case

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• stating that plea negotiations ended after the defendant signed the agreement and before he made any statement, so the statement was not made in the course of plea discussions
• upholding trial court’s decision to take notice that a criminal charge-had been dismissed, but not to take notice of the purported reason for the dismissal
• finding “no merit” to a claim “that it was error to fail to include an instruction requiring the jury to make findings concerning non-statutory aggravators”
• finding no error where the r ·defendant failed to advise the appellate court how his statement to police was taken out of context to mislead the jury as to its meaning
• discussing a judge’s power to control the progress and shape of trial
• “[The parties] were not allowed, however, to attempt to commit a juror in advance to a particular theory or result.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).