Steve Sizemore, Cross-Appellant v. Lloyd Fletcher, Warden, Cross-Appellee

How courts have described this case

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• affirming grant of habeas relief where the prosecutor denigrated the 59 defendant’s right to counsel by arguing that the defendant had hired seven attorneys to “get [the] story straight” and “take[] care of everything”
• “A prosecutor may not imply that an accused’s decision to meet with counsel, even shortly after the incident giving rise to a criminal indictment, implies guilt.”
• “This repeated failure to caution the jury and counsel not only failed to cure the errors made, but was bound to imply that the right to counsel was of little or no consequence and that exercise of that right was somehow indicative of guilt.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).