United States v. Milton L. Hayward

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• prosecutor pointed out that police interviewed 40-50 witnesses, but only a few would testify, and that defendant’s two brothers sat in the courtroom
• prosecutor’s suggestion that paucity of Government’s witnesses was a result of intimidation by defendant
• prosecutor's suggestion that paucity of Government's witnesses was a result of intimidation by defendant
• “It is fundamental to sound procedure in federal criminal prosecutions that counsel refrain from ‘appeal wholly irrelevant to any facts or issues in the case, the purpose and effect of which could only [be] to arouse passion and prejudice.’ ”
• “When the error which is challenged on appeal goes to a basic constitutional right, such as the right to trial by jury in issue here, the error will rarely be considered harmless.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).