Sipsas v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• concluding that the prosecutor's description of the defense expert as a \hired gun\ was inappropriate
• noting that this court may review errors that are “patently prejudicial,” regardless of counsel’s failure to object
• holding similarly when an attorney called an expert witness a \`hired gun from Hot Tub Country'\
• reversing first degree murder conviction in part because unobjected-to prosecutorial misconduct violated defendant's right to fair trial
• reversing first degree murder conviction in part because unobjected-to prosecutorial misconduct violated defendant’s right to fair trial
• stating that as a general rule, a failure to object at trial precludes appellate review, but where errors are patently prejudicial and inevitably inflame or excite the passions of the jurors against the accused, the general rule does not apply

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).