State of Tennessee v. Raynella Dossett Leath

How courts have described this case

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• concluding that the defendant’s failure to make a written request for a special jury instruction on her “theory of defense” resulted in waiver of plenary review
• holding that a witness’ testimony that she had previously stated that she was “scared” of the defendant was not Rule 404(b) evidence because it referred only to “some possible, undefined prior bad act”
• stating that the defendant‘s failure to file a written request for a special jury instruction on her ―theory of defense‖ resulted in waiver
• stating that the defendant’s failure to file a written request for a special jury instruction on her “theory of defense” resulted in waiver
• noting in context of Brady claim that “the State is not required to disclose „information that the accused already possesses or is able to obtain‟”
• treating as waived the defendant’s “one-sentence argument citing only to a news media article” that the trial court failed to act as the thirteenth juror

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).