Hawaii Intermediate Court of Appeals· 8/6/1996

State v. Sanchez

Citations

923 P.2d 934
82 Haw. 517

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holding that prosecutor’s assertion of his personal evaluation of the credibility of certain witnesses in final argument constituted prosecutorial misconduct
holding that “the cumulative effect of the prosecutor’s misconduct was to deny Defendant a fair trial”
holding that prosecutor’s argument implying “that an acquittal would brand the jury members as ‘fools’ ” “improperly directed the jury from its duty to decide the case on the evidence by making predictions of the consequences of the jury’s verdict.”
determining that the prosecutor improperly asserted \personal evaluation of the credibility of certain witnesses in final argument\ by using the personal pronoun \I\ (emphasis 25 NOT FOR PUBLICATION IN WEST'S HAWAI#I REPORTS AND PACIFIC REPORTER omitted)
prosecutor improperly asserted \personal evaluation of the credibility of certain witnesses in final argument\ by using personal pronoun \I.\
\The State should only refer in the opening statement to evidence that it has a genuine good-faith belief will be produced at trial.\

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Judges: Burns, Watanabe, Acoba

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