People v. Thigpen

How courts have described this case

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

• recognizing course-of- investigation testimony may need additional context to rebut inferences not based on facts
• “testimony that witnesses were made to fear for their safety if they testified against a defendant may be admitted to explain inconsistent statements by the witnesses”
• testimony about other murders and photos of victims sent to jury were irrelevant; limiting instruction did not cure resulting unfair prejudice
• testimony about other murders and photos of victims sent to jury were irrelevant; limiting instruction did not cure resulting unfair prejudice
• \testimony that witnesses were made to fear for their safety if they testified against a defendant may be admitted to explain inconsistent statements by the witnesses\
• photographs of victims’ corpses in a murder trial

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).