Protests 66011-K of International Paper Sales Co.

How courts have described this case

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• concluding that, with regard to a comment made by the prosecutor during rebut- tal, “the prosecutor improperly urged the jury to find defen- dant guilty based, not exclusively on the strength of the state’s evidence, but on a desire to punish defense counsel”
• concluding that, with regard to a comment made by the prosecutor during rebut- tal, “the prosecutor improperly urged the jury to find defen- dant guilty based, not exclusively on the strength of the state’s evidence, but on a desire to punish defense counsel”
• “[Prosecutorial misconduct] commonly involves * * * urging [the jury] to make inferences not based on the evidence; or to disregard the evidence altogether and base their determina- tion on wholly irrelevant factors.”
• “Our case law defines prosecutorial misconduct as any activ- ity by the prosecutor which tends to divert the jury from making its determination of guilt or innocence by weighing the legally admitted evidence in the manner prescribed by law.” (Internal quotation marks omitted.)
• prose- cutor criticized defense counsel in closing argument
• “When a prosecutor attempts to influ- ence the jury by making unwarranted personal attacks on defense counsel, that conduct is not only unfair, but it impugns the integrity of the system as a whole because such conduct dangerously overshadow[s] what a defendant’s case is really about.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).