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· 11/25/1985

State v. Zagorski

Citations

  • 701 S.W.2d 808
  • 1985 Tenn. LEXIS 617

How courts have described this case

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

  • holding that evidence that defendant, at the time of his capture, rammed a police car and opened fire on police officers inside was relevant as one of several circumstance from which a jury could infer guilt
  • infliction of gratuitous violence and needless mutilation of victims who were already helpless from fatal wounds
  • defendant rammed police car and opened fire on officers; his conduct at the time of capture provided relevant circumstances from which jury could infer guilt
  • “flight and attempts to evade arrest are relevant as circumstances from which, when considered with other facts and circumstances in evidence, a jury can properly draw an inference of guilt”
  • “A defendant’s flight and attempts to evade arrest are relevant as circumstances from which, when considered with the other facts and circumstances in evidence, a jury can properly draw an inference of guilt.”
  • “A defendant’s flight and attempts to evade arrest are relevant as circumstances from which, when considered with the other facts and circumstances in evidence, a jury can properly draw an inference of guilt.”

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Judges: Cooper, Fones, Harbison, Drowota, Brock

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