Palmer v. Maxwell

How courts have described this case

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

• providing that the State may not comment on mitigating factors not raised by defendant
• finding no prejudicial error where the trial court read all the statutory mitigating factors to the jury but did not comment on the factors actually presented by the defendant
• finding no prejudicial error where the trial court read all the statutory mitigating factors to the jury but did not comment on the factors actually presented by the defendant
• reviewing photographs of crime scene taken by law enforcement in capital murder trial
• where transcripts contain occasional lapses due to inaudibility, capital defendant must demonstrate prejudice resulting from the incompleteness of the record
• allegations that information missing 18 from the record “could be vital” do not amount to the required demonstration of prejudice

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).