John Thomas Drayden v. Theo White, Warden

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• holding that first-person argument was error but did not render the trial \fundamentally unfair\ which would have entitled defendant to a new trial
• holding that prosecutor’s creation of a fictitious character based on the dead victim and delivering closing argument in the voice of that character is not a denial of due process because his statements were supported by the evidence and reasonable inferences therefrom
• defendant’s conduct after murder—including cleaning of scene, search of victim’s apartment, stealing of car, other property'—evidence of premeditated plan to rob victim, calculated strategy to lull him in furtherance of plan

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