State v. Skidd

How courts have described this case

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• observing that DeLoreto “acknowledged that in order for a threat to be prohibited by statute in Connecticut, that threat must rise to the level of a ‘true threat’ ”
• court declines to review claim under Golding when defendant failed to brief entitlement to Golding in main brief
• court declines to review claim under Golding when defendant failed to brief entitlement to Golding in main brief
• proper comment on witness motivation to be truthful based on “ascertainable motives” of the witness rather than prosecutor’s personal opinion
• racial epithet used in state’s closing argument did not unfairly prejudice defendant when word relevant to defendant’s intent and used in reference to testimony of several trial witnesses
• prosecutorial impropriety of constitutional magnitude can occur in final argument

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).