Supreme Court of Georgia November 13, 2000, S00A0865 (Hudson v. State)

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United States · · · 13-11-2000

FLETCHER, Presiding Justice,

concurring specially.

I concur in the judgment of the majority opinion; I write separately because I do not believe that the wide latitude allowed in closing argument encompasses irrelevant and prejudicial comparisons to infamous defendants.

This Court first allowed a prosecutor to refer to notorious crimes in closing arguments in Forehand v. State.

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