Thompson v. McDonough

How courts have described this case

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• concluding that it was improper for prosecutor to tell jury ‘‘that the defendant probably had been involved in a second robbery even though there was no evidence suggesting that to be true’’
• agreeing that prosecutor inappropriately appealed to jurors’ emotions by asking jury to find defendant guilty out of sympathy for victim and his family
• finding prosecutor's statement improper where he indicated that only guilty verdict would protect legal system
• explaining extraordinary circumstances justifying exercise of supervisory authority to reverse conviction in absence of constitutional violation
• discussing ‘‘institutional costs’’ of ordering new trial as sanction for deliberate prosecutorial improprieties, including witnesses’ poten- tial unavailability and memory loss
• reversing conviction under supervisory power because prosecutor engaged in seri ous and deliberate acts of misconduct that significantly prejudiced defendant, and prosecutor engaged in same types of misconduct in prior trials

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).