Opinion ID: 1654600
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Heading Rank: 7

Heading: whether the state made improper closing remarks.

Text: ¶ 16. McGilberry asserts that trial counsel failed to object to the State's closing argument that the jury should think of a more appropriate time in your memory for retribution. The State responds that the issue is procedurally barred from consideration pursuant to Miss.Code Ann. § 99-39-21(1) because the issue was capable of determination at trial and on direct appeal. However, we have the prerogative of relaxing the rules of contemporaneous objection and plain error where the interests of justice so require. Williams v. State, 445 So.2d 798, 810 (Miss.1984). In Pinkney v. State, 538 So.2d 329, 338 (Miss.1988), vacated and remanded on other grounds, 494 U.S. 1075, 110 S.Ct. 1800, 108 L.Ed.2d 931 (1990), we found no reversible error where the State asked the jury to give justice to the deceased victim. The State's closing remarks in the present case are no more egregious. This issue is without merit.