Tennessee Supreme Court· 9/16/2002

State v. Austin

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87 S.W.3d 447
2002 Tenn. LEXIS 400
2002 WL 31103628

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concluding that “[a] criminal defendant lacks standing to complain of the violation of a third party’s Fifth Amendment privilege against self-incrimination” because the right is “personal and cannot be vicariously asserted”
adding that it is within the trial court’s discretion to allow individual voir dire of prospective jurors
finding the claim of prosecutorial misconduct during closing argument “procedurally defaulted” because the defendant failed to make a contemporaneous objection to the prosecutor’s statements during closing argument
“Generally, evidence of threats against witnesses attributed to the accused is probative as being either (1) conduct inconsistent with the accused’s claim of innocence or (2
“Generally, evidence of threats against witnesses attributed to the accused is probative as being either (1) conduct inconsistent with the accused’s claim of innocence or (2) conduct consistent with the theory that the making of such threats evinces a consciousness of guilt.”
while trial court erred in excluding from evidence vice squad report which may have identified other persons with motive to kill the victim, the “essence” of the report was put before the jury during cross-examination of a witness, so the error was harmless

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Judges: Justice Janice M. Holder

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