People v. Crossno

How courts have described this case

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• defendant prejudiced by improper statement that a conviction on a lesser offense would be a slap on the wrist
• “If you want to slap him on the wrist find him guilty of involuntary manslaughter”
• defendant prejudiced by improper statement that a conviction on a lesser offense would be a slap on the wrist
• no excuse for State “misinforming the jury” during its rebuttal argument “when it cannot be challenged by the defense, except by way of an interjected objection”
• prosecutor’s “reconstruction” of the testimony of witnesses, including a witness’s testimony offered solely to impeach the defendant’s testimony but used “to demonstrate that defendant had the requisite state of mind to commit murder and aggravated battery,” constituted plain error

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).