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· 2/10/2016

State of Tennessee v. Jodi N. Teets

How courts have described this case

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

  • finding impermissible the “prosecutor’s remark ... that the Government had no incentive to try [the defendant] unless he were in fact guilty”
  • finding it \impermissible\ for the prosecutor to state that the government had no incentive to prosecute Smith unless he were in fact guilty
  • “The waiver doctrine generally bars consideration of issues that a party could have raised in an earlier appeal but did not.”
  • a prosecutor’s argument “offer[ing] the integrity of the prosecu- tor . . . as a reason to disbelieve” a witness
  • \substantially affected\ and \of Smith's proceedings\

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Judges: Judge Timothy L. Easter

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