Tony Caldwell v. Harry K. Russell

How courts have described this case

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

• stating that a prosecutor cannot “express a personal opinion concerning the guilt of the defendant or the credibility of trial witnesses”
• stating that a prosecutor cannot \express a personal opinion concerning the guilt of the defendant or the credibility of trial witnesses\
• stating that personal appeals exceed “the legitimate advocate’s role by improperly inviting the jurors to convict the defendants on a basis other than a neutral independent assessment of the record proof’
• stating that personal appeals exceed \the legitimate advocate's role by improperly inviting the jurors to convict the defendants on a basis other than a neutral independent assessment of the record proof\
• affirming denial of habeas petition where “prosecutorial remarks in controversy were supported by the [admitted evidence]”
• Ohio state court adopting the x'easoning of Caldwell and finding that the Ohio “insanity defense does not involve the substantive elements of the criminal offense.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).