United States v. Jimmie E. Phillips

How courts have described this case

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• prosecutor implied that finding defendant innocent would require also finding prosecutor guilty of conspiring to violate defendant’s civil rights
• suggestion by prosecutor that if jury were to find defendant innocent, they would also have to find the prosecutor guilty of conspiring to violate the civil rights of the defendant
• “In our opinion, the statement of the prosecutor, left uncorrected by the court, could have led the jury to believe it had to find that the prosecutor and government witness violated the civil rights of the defendant in order to render a verdict of not guilty.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).