West Virginia Supreme Court· 12/19/1988

State v. Moss

Citations

376 S.E.2d 569
180 W. Va. 363
1988 W. Va. LEXIS 204

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holding that admission of testimony that State had dismissed indictment against earlier suspect because he successfully passed polygraph was reversible error when prosecutor repeatedly referred to polygraph on direct and in summation
holding that admission of testimony that State had dismissed indictment against earlier suspect because he successfully passed polygraph was reversible error when prosecutor repeatedly referred to polygraph on direct and in summation
“compliance with the juvenile prompt present requirement is examined separately from the determination of voluntariness”
prosecutor’s remarks during closing argument were so egregious that they constitute plain error
reversed: prosecutor called the defendant a “ ‘psychopath’ with a ‘diseased criminal mind’” and encouraged the jury to find the defendant guilty of first degree murder so the defendant “would ‘never be released to slaughter women and children of Kanawha County’ ”
prosecutor’s remarks during closing argument so egregious that they constituted plain error

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Judges: McGRAW

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