Protests 4851-K of Lord

How courts have described this case

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

• concluding that the jury was likely to have understood the prosecutor’s statement that the jury had to choose between the defendant’s and the victim’s “stories” to be permissible “advocacy about how the jury should assess the credibility of the witnesses, including the victim”
• “[T]he state permissibly may attempt to persuade the jury that it should believe one ver- sion of events and not another.”
• “In our view, it is unlikely that the jury would have understood the prosecutor’s subsequent state- ments about the parties’ competing ‘stories’ as anything other than advocacy about how the jury should assess the credibility of the witnesses, including the victim.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).