Ninth Circuit· 11/14/2000

John Thomas Drayden v. Theo White, Warden

Citations

232 F.3d 704
2000 Cal. Daily Op. Serv. 9119
2000 Daily Journal DAR 12105
2000 U.S. App. LEXIS 28647
2000 WL 1693248

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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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Judges: Aldisert, Graber, Fisher

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