Ohio Supreme Court· 9/3/2003

State v. Williams

Citations

99 Ohio St. 3d 493
794 N.E.2d 27

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holding that ‘‘[a] verdict is final if (1) the deliberations are over, (2) the result is announced in open court, and (3) the jury is polled and no dissent is registered.”
using term “prosecutorial error” to describe prosecutor’s injection of most emotional aspects of crime into closing arguments
penalty-phase jury instruction, stating that mitigating factors could be considered by jury as extenuating or reducing the degree of the defendant’s blame or punishment, was prejudicial error

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Judges: Connor, Cook, Moyer, Pfeifer, Resnick, Shaw, Stratton, Sweeney, Third

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