State ex rel. Department of Highways v. Givens

How courts have described this case

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

• distinguishing the term “excuse” in the context of criminal law from a “mitigating circumstance”
• “The prosecutorial misconduct tainted the jury’s vote on whether the aggravating circumstances outweighed the mitigating circumstances.”
• “We review errors which were not raised at the trial level for plain error.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).