Ohio Supreme Court· 12/18/1991

State v. Combs

Citations

62 Ohio St. 3d 278
581 N.E.2d 1071
1991 Ohio LEXIS 2890

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finding that the prosecutor’s “gross speculation” was improper but that it did not rise to the level of plain error since the statement did not make a “crucial difference”
admission of defendant’s post-custody, pre-Miranda warnings statement, while improper, did not cause a miscarriage of justice
error for prosecutor to put imaginary words in victim’s mouth
statute requiring that certain terms of imprisonment be served consecutively with and prior to life sentences or indefinite terms of imprisonment does not refer to death sentences and does not require that they be served before execution of a death sentence
describing comments about murder victims’ thoughts as “gross speculation”

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Judges: Brown, Douglas, Holmes, Moyer, Only, Resnick, Sweeney, Wright

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