Colorado Court of Appeals· 4/5/2007

People v. Welsh

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176 P.3d 781
2007 Colo. App. LEXIS 608
2007 WL 1017752

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concluding the prosecutor’s comment about the absence of a suicide note was “a permissible reference to the absence of evidence to support defendant’s contention that she was intending to kill herself”
A 21 prosecutor “may draw reasonable inferences from the evidence as to the credibility of witnesses.”
“[T]rial courts are to refrain from distinguishing between the ‘court’s instructions’ and the ‘defendant’s instruction’ . . . .”
prosecutors have “leeway to point to evidence and inferences that cast doubt on the defense theory or show that evidence on which 13 defendant was relying lacked substance”

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Judges: Vogt, Carparelli, Jones

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