United States v. Kendrick Weatherspoon

How courts have described this case

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• noting that the “ethical bar is set higher for the prosecutor than for the criminal defense lawyer”
• explaining that vouching is forbidden because a jury “may be inclined to give weight to the prosecutor’s opinion ... instead of making the independent judgment of credibility to which the defendant is entitled”
• condemning “prosecutorial statements designed to appeal to the passions, fears and vulnerabilities of the jury”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).