United States v. Dennis Drummond

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• holding that prosecutor may not make issue of “own credibility” (internal quotation marks omitted)
• faulting prosecutor who dismissed defense arguments as “preposterous” for improperly interjecting his beliefs and his own credibility into case and misrepresenting trial testimony
• reversing conviction following the third appeal involving improper summations by the same prosecutor
• it was improper for prosecutor to describe defen- dant’s testimony as ‘‘so riddled with lies it insults the intelligence of [the] intelligent people sitting on the jury’’ (internal quotation marks omitted)
• “Because of the repeated misbehavior of this prosecutor in this and prior cases, we feel compelled to reverse the decision of the trial court on the sole ground of prosecutorial misconduct.”
• conviction reversed because of prejudicial statements by Assistant United States Attorney

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