Maye v. City of New Haven

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How courts have described this case

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• holding that a prosecutor providing his opinion regarding a witness’ integrity is improper
• improper to attribute witness’s wink to defendant or to characterize it without basis in evidence
• prejudice found where prosecutor’s statement that “we try to prosecute only the guilty” was combined with baseless charge of witness tampering against defendant, statement of opinion of disputed fact issue, and description of defendant as a “hoodlum”
• prosecutor referred to defendant as \hoodlum\
• prosecutor referred to defendant as “hoodlum”
• description of defendant as a \hoodlum\

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