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Court of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee· 5/2/1990

State v. Brown

Citations

  • 795 S.W.2d 689
  • 1990 Tenn. Crim. App. LEXIS 345

How courts have described this case

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  • holding that alleged error in failure to arraign was waived by failure to raise in pretrial motion
  • upholding as proper a prosecutor's closing argument that \the jury should consider the evidence in light of human experience and common sense.\
  • upholding as proper a prosecutor’s closing argument that “the jury should consider the evidence in light of human experience and common sense”
  • the opportunity the witness had to view the criminal at the time of the crime
  • the defendants failed to show that the actual jury was biased when a prospective juror indicated he had damaging information regarding the defendants from an acquaintance who was familiar with the crime
  • the accuracy of the witness’ prior description of the criminal

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Judges: Dwyer, Duncan, Jones

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