Vail v. Dinning

How courts have described this case

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• holding that the use of a PowerPoint presentation during opening statement that includes a slide of the defendant's booking photograph with the word \GUILTY\ written across it is error as it undermines the presumption of innocence
• observing that the opening statement serves to state the issues and evidence to be presented
• providing that the opening statement should be limited to the evidence the State intends to offer and believes to be admissible
• explaining that opening statements provide an opportunity to outline the evidence to be presented, not for argument
• providing that opening statement should set forth evidence believed in good faith to be available and admissible and reviewing challenges to opening statement for abuse of discretion
• providing that opening statement should set forth evidence believed in good faith to be available and admissible and reviewing challenges to opening statement for abuse of discretion

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).