United States v. John Waldo Birges, Sr., Terry Lee Hall

How courts have described this case

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• “It is neither unusual nor improper for a prosecutor to voice doubt about the veracity of a defendant . . . .”
• “It is neither unusual nor improper for a 11 prosecutor to voice doubt about the veracity of a defendant who has taken the stand.”
• “If the prosecutor acts as an advocate ‘in initiating a 12 prosecution and in presenting the State’s case,’ absolute immunity is warranted.”
• “It is neither unusual nor improper for a 23 prosecutor to voice doubt about the veracity of a defendant who has taken the stand.”
• “Improprieties in counsel’s arguments to the jury do not constitute reversible error unless they are so gross as probably to prejudice the defendant, and the prejudice has not been neutralized by the trial judge.” (internal quotation marks and citations omitted)

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).