Verg Lee Nero v. Frank C. Blackburn, Warden, Louisiana State Penitentiary

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• ruling that under Louisiana law the prosecutor may not introduce evidence of other crimes unless it comes “within a specific statutory provision authorizing its admission”
• admission of three extraneous offenses by prosecution in closing would have been prejudicial enough to violate “fundamental fairness”
• \Sometimes a single error is so substantial that it alone causes the attorney's assistance to fall below the sixth amendment standard.\
• \Sometimes a single error is so substantial that it alone causes the attorney's assistance to fall below the sixth amendment standard.\
• ineffectiveness established by failure to make mistrial motion which would have automatically required reversal because of inadmissible “other crimes” evidence found “prejudicial” to defendant in instant trial.
• failure to object to comments by prosecutor on defendant’s prior convictions

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