Howland v. Vincent

How courts have described this case

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• concluding trial counsel’s decision in agreeing to the joinder of three different cases involving the abuse of multiple children in the defendant’s care was not ineffective
• agreeing that joinder was proper for multiple counts of child abuse and one count of abuse of a vulnerable adult where charges involved four victims and occurred on different dates and at different locations
• agreeing with district court that varying abuse charges against co-defendants involved same general accusations even though methods of injury differed
• in context of prosecutorial misconduct, Court noted difficulty of distinguishing between “probability” and “possibility” and resolved to apply “probability” to prejudice analysis
• “In closing arguments, a prosecutor has ‘wide latitude’ to argue the evidence in the record and all reasonable inferences which can be drawn from that evidence.”
• “Plain error review is the same regardless of whether the issue involved jury instructions, evidence, or prosecutorial misconduct.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).