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2 canonical passages across 2 cases, quoted by 6 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 King v. State.

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1 King v. State Anchor
fladistctapp · 1994
green “closing arguments are the last and best opportunity trial counsel have to directly address the jury on what they should or should not decide within the parameters of the proper instructions the jury is about to receive from the trial judge.” 4
2 Knuth v. State
fladistctapp · 1996
green “the failure to give the instruction before the defendants had their final say generated prejudice that can only be remedied by retrial.” 2

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