Commonwealth v. Graziano

How courts have described this case

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• finding that appeal to ethnic stereotypes went beyond permissible limits even though prosecutor took cue from defense counsel
• prosecutor remarked that defense witnesses \[a]ll come from Italy\ and made repeated references to Al Capone
• evidence that witness’s “conduct made it likely that he would be a suspect . . . was relevant to his motive in testifying”
• evidence that witness “thought he was suspected was relevant to his motive in testifying and therefore to his credibility”
• defendant is not required to pursue a line of questioning \in the face of the judge's unequivocal adverse ruling\
• defendant is not required to pursue a line of questioning “in the face of the judge’s unequivocal adverse ruling”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).