· 6/9/2020
Potthoff v. Kornegay
How courts have described this case
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- finding that informing the jury panel that a case did not involve the death penalty could be a legitimate strategic tactic, \[i]n light ofthe highly publicized circumstances\
- “Credibility determinations are reserved for the trier of fact, and an appellate court ‘must defer to the [trier of fact] on issues of conflicting testimony, credibility of witnesses, and persuasiveness of the evidence.’” (alteration in original
- no misconduct where remarks \did not expressly contrast an acquittal. . . with a jury determination that the State's witness were lying\ and \merely highlighted the obvious fact that the two accounts were fundamentally and obviously different\
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