Legal Opinion
State of Tennessee v. Noura Jackson
Tennessee Supreme Court
Decided August 22, 2014No. W2009-01709-SC-R11-CDPublishedCited by 80 opinions
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2Opinion of the Court · ClarkCornelia A. Clark, J.
in which GARY R. WADE, C.J., and JANICE M. HOLDER, WILLIAM C. KOCH, JR., and SHARON G. LEE, JJ„ joined.
The defendant was charged with the June 2005 first degree premeditated murder of her mother. The jury convicted her of second degree murder after a trial in which the evidence was entirely circumstantial. The Court of Criminal Appeals affirmed her conviction and sentence, although the judges on the Panel were not unanimous as to the rationale for the decision. We granted the defendant’s application for permission to appeal. We hold that the lead prosecutor’s remark during final…
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