Robert L. Floyd v. Larry Meachum, Commissioner of Correction, State of Connecticut

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• holding that “[w]hile each instance of prosecutorial misconduct, standing alone, might not justify reversal, the effect of all of them requires it.”
• granting habeas petition under pre-AEDPA standard in part because prosecutor's remarks that defendant was a liar and her repeated references to the Fifth Amendment were incurable error under Donnelly
• faulting prosecutor for characterizing non-testifying defendant as “liar” more than 40 times, improperly referencing Fifth Amendment, and inviting jury to assess her own personal integrity and professional ethics
• granting habeas petition under pr e-AEDPA standard in part because prosecutor's remarks that defendant was a liar and her repeated references to the Fifth Amendment wer e incurable error under Donnelly
• misconduct when prosecutor “asked jury to pass on her personal integrity and professional ethics before deliberating on evidence”
• “[T]he only arguably curative measure adopted by the trial judge — the normal instruction in the course of his charge that argument of counsel is not evidence — was inadequate.”

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