State v. Thornburgh

How courts have described this case

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

• “The trial court should act impartially and avoid conduct . . . [implying] bias against either party.”
• “An argumentative question is one that ‘merely invokes the witness’[s] assent to the questioner’s inferences from or 12 interpretations of the facts proved or assumed.’” (citation omitted)
• though it would be advisable to omit the phrase, an instruction providing “the inference of theft may be rebutted” does not violate the fifth or the fourteenth amendments by shifting the burden of proof to the defendant
• court should avoid extreme use of power to question witnesses
• fourteen-year-old conviction held too remote

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).