People v. Arrington

How courts have described this case

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

• counsel \has a substantial and very important role to perform in raising mitigating factors ... to the court at sentencing\
• counsel “has a substantial and very important role to perform in raising mitigating factors ... to the court at sentencing”
• plain error standard required the appellate court to consider the instructions as a whole and to review the record to see whether the appellant was prejudiced by the instructions
• plain error standard required the appellate court to consider the instructions as a whole and to review the record to see whether the appellant was prejudiced by the instructions
• “Judicial attempts to clarify the meaning of the phrase ‘reasonable doubt’ by explanation, elaboration or illustration, as employed here, more often than not tend to confuse or mislead.”
• “Judicial attempts to clarify the meaning of the phrase ‘reasonable doubt’ by explanation, elaboration or illustration . . . more often than not tend to confuse or mislead.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).