United States v. Desmond Ollivierre, A/K/A James Franklin Bridges

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• recognizing that it is “improper for a prosecutor to launch a personal attack upon the defense attorney or upon defense lawyers generally”
• finding that the prosecution’s comments, including that defense counsel “tries to weave in distorted facts to try to make his argument,” were not improper
• flight instruction appropriate where defendant absconded after release on bond
• \[T]he Sixth Amendment's right to counsel mandate[s] a prosecutor to refrain from such attacks against defense counsel . . . . Any comment by the prosecution that disparages a defendant's decision to exercise his Sixth Amendment right to counsel is thus improper.\

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