Tennessee Supreme Court· 3/4/2005

State v. Thomas

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158 S.W.3d 361

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holding that the prosecutor’s repeated personification of defendants as “greed and evil” was unseemly but did not undermine the fundamental fairness of the trial
concluding that opening statements should not refer to the defendant through the use of epithets but that reference to defendants as “greed and evil” did not undermine fundamental fairness of the trial
holding that the State’s position—that an objection to cumulative evidence was waived where no contemporaneous objection was entered at trial— was well taken, but electing to review the issue on the merits
concluding that the witness’s “actions in allowing the defendant into her home after the commission of the crimes, going shopping with the stolen money and receiving part of the proceeds for herself, do not make her a principal to the offense of murder or robbery of the victim”
holding prosecutor repeatedly referring two co-defendants as “greed and evil” was improper
finding procedural waiver in failure to reference specific photographs complained of but addressing the issue nevertheless

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Judges: Anderson, Riley, Birch, Drowota, Holder, Barker

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