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Colorado Court of Appeals· 4/10/2003

People v. Allee

Citations

  • 77 P.3d 831
  • 2003 Colo. App. LEXIS 519
  • 2003 WL 1840865

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  • concluding that the prosecutor’s closing argument, which was intended to draw the jury’s focus to relevant evidence rather than to denigrate defense 20 counsel, wasn’t improper
  • concluding that it was not improper for the prosecution to ask the jury not to be conf used by defense counsel’s tactics because the comment was intend ed to draw the jury’s focus to relevant evide nce rather than to d enigrate opposing counsel
  • noting that a prosecutor may “employ rhetorical devices and engage in oratorical embellishment and metaphorical nuance, so long as [the argument] does not thereby induce the jury to determine guilt on the basis of passion or prejudice”
  • asking jury not to be confused , by defense tactic hot improper where, intended to draw jury’s focus to relevant evidence, rather than to denigrate defense counsel
  • “In closing argument, [a prosecutor] may employ r hetorical devices and engage in oratorical embellishment and metaphoric al nuance . . . .”
  • within limits, a prosecutor may employ rhetorical devices and engage in orat orical embellishment and metaphorical nuance

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Judges: Kapelke, Dailey, Rothenberg

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