· 2/10/2016
State of Tennessee v. Jodi N. Teets
How courts have described this case
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- 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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