United States v. Longbehn

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• holding that by providing biographical testimony during penalty phase, defendant waived his privilege against prosecutorial comment on matters reasonably related to his credibility or the subject matter of his testimony
• “the prosecutor exceeded the bounds of permissible advocacy by imploring the jury to make its death penalty determination in the same cruel and malevolent manner shown by the defendants when they tortured and drowned” their victims

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).