Pacifico v. State

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• asking jury to make defendant take responsibility for his actions appears to constitute implicit instruction that it was jury’s duty to society to return guilty verdict
• prosecutor repeatedly called the defendant a chronic liar, introduced facts not in evidence, urged the jury it was their duty to convict, referred to defendant in pejorative terms
• finding the cumulative effect of prosecutorial improprieties as fundamental error

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).