Wall v. Avoyelles Correctional Center

How courts have described this case

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

• “ ‘[tjhis process of inference is peculiarly a jury function, the raison d’etre of the jury system’ ”
• trial court’s instruction that jury could draw ‘‘ ‘no unreasonable inference’ ’’ from defendant’s failure to testify was improper because it ‘‘clearly permitted the jury to draw an unfavorable inference which was also a reasonable inference’’

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).