State v. Plath

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• holding that solicitor’s comment that defendants were not testifying was cured by solicitor’s apology and judge’s charge
• stating that this rule is so fundamental that it requires no citation of authority
• holding it \is essential . . . that the jury have before it all possible relevant information about the individual whose fate it must determine\ (quoting Barefoot v. Estelle, 463 U.S. 880, 897 (1983))
• find-ing jury could have found victim was inveigled and decoyed to her death
• “Information as to a defendant’s record of previous criminal convictions has always been deemed relevant to the process of imposing sentence”
• solicitor’s comment that defendants were not testifying cured by solicitor’s apology and judge’s charge

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).