State v. Bescher

How courts have described this case

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• finding “facial error in the prosecutor asking Defendant on at least nine occasions whether other witnesses were lying or had any reason to lie”
• noting “trial judge is in the best position to judge the prejudicial effect of a question and should exercise sua sponte action only in exceptional circumstances”
• finding no manifest injustice from State questioning defendant “on at least nine occasions whether other witnesses were lying or had any reason to lie,” where substantial evidence supported defendant’s conviction

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).