Mayer v. White

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• holding that prosecutor's reference to defendant's statement, in which he admitted to several aspects of his involvement in a conspiracy but did not formally confess his guilt, was improper
• explaining that the first step in analysis of whether prosecutor’s argument violated due process is whether the remarks were improper
• denying defendant's request for substitute counsel because \any difficulties [defendant] was experiencing were due to his own belligerence\
• describing whether to rule on “dilatory objections” as “a matter left to [the district] court’s discretion”
• finding it improper for prosecutor to say the defendant had confessed when he \had merely related aspects of his conduct to government agents.\
• commenting on\the broad lati- tude afforded a trial judge in controlling cross-examination\

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