Tennessee Supreme Court· 9/22/2010

State v. Jordan

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325 S.W.3d 1
2010 WL 11507502
2010 Tenn. LEXIS 874

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noting that “defense counsel’s failure to object contemporaneously [to improper prosecutorial argument] will constitute a waiver of the issue on appeal”
acknowledging that the Eighth Amendment is applicable to the states by virtue of the Fourteenth Amendment (citing Robinson v. California, 370 U.S. 660, 666–67 (1962))
finding no prejudice in the prosecutor’s improper references to the “angel of death” in part due to the trial court’s issuing of similar jury instructions
upholding the death sentence where the defendant shot and killed his estranged wife and two men at his wife’s work place and the jury found five aggravating circumstances
upholding the death sentence where the defendant shot and killed his estranged wife and two men at his wife’s work place and the jury found five aggravating circumstances
reviewing closing argument for plain error when the defendant did not contemporaneously object

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Judges: Justice Cornelia A. Clark

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