Court of Appeals of Washington· 7/17/2012

State v. Pierce

Citations

169 Wash. App. 533
280 P.3d 1158

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holding that '\I need a lawyer. I'm gonna need a lawyer because itwasn't me'\ was an unambiguous invocation of the right to an attorney
holding that prosecutor’s statements were improper because “[t]hat the [victims] would never have expected the crime to occur was not relevant to [the defendant’s] guilt, nor were the prosecutor’s assertions about the [victims’] future plans”
stating that it is improper for the prosecutor to step into the defendant's shoes and become his personal representative
focusing on the shocking nature of the crimes and asking the jurors to imagine themselves being murdered in their homes
reversing conviction based in part on prosecutor’s “fabricated and inflammatory account” of offense
“[A] prosecutor commits reversible misconduct by urging the jury to decide a case based on evidence outside the record.”

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Judges: Deren, Johanson, Worswick

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