Topic: designed to arouse the passion and prejudices of the jury a… · Go Syfert
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4 canonical passages across 2 cases, quoted by 36 opinions in total. These passages cluster together because the same opinions keep quoting them side by side: they state parts of one doctrine. The anchor passage is from Borjan v. State.

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1 Borjan v. State Anchor
texcrimapp · 1990
green “designed to arouse the passion and prejudices of the jury and as such are highly inappropriate.” 23
2 Brown v. State
texapp · 1998
green “an improper and erroneous interjection of facts not in the record.” 5
3 Brown v. State
texapp · 1998
green “each additional comparison added to the incendiary and emotional effect the criminal acts of dahmer, gacy, and bundy had on a reasonable juror's psyche.” 4
4 Brown v. State
texapp · 1998
green “in assessing the potentialities at bar, we are unable to say that the cumulative effect of each instance of misconduct was nil or only slight.” 4

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