Associated Press v. Taylor Budowich

Oral arguments

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Source: CourtListener oral-argument corpus (CC0).

How courts have described this case

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

• “The prosecutor and defense counsel both told the jury that the key issue for the entire trial was [one witness’s] credibility.”
• “The prosecutor and defense counsel both told the jury that the key issue for the entire trial was [one witness’s] credibility.”
• A prosecutor’s arguments cross into impermissible vouching territory when they are “in the nature of ‘take my word for it,’ not ‘let me show you.’ ”
• “[P]rosecutors have substantial lee- way to argue about the evidence and to try to persuade jurors to their view of the evidence, but they may not interject their own personal views of a witness’s credibility.” (Emphasis in original.)
• “[P]rose- cutors have substantial leeway to argue about the evidence and to try to persuade jurors to their view of evidence” as long as they do not “interject their own personal views of a witness’s credibility.” (Emphasis in original.)
• “[P]rose- cutors have substantial leeway to argue about the evidence and to try to persuade jurors to their view of evidence” as long as they do not “interject their own personal views of a witness’s credibility.” (Emphasis in original.)

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).