Opinion ID: 1708859
Heading Depth: 1
Heading Rank: 14

Heading: Threat to society.

Text: Finally, the appellant contends that the prosecutors improperly inferred that Stringer would be a danger to society if he did not receive the death penalty. Specifically, Mr. Peters made the following comments: And, as bad as they are, don't the prisoners in the penitentiary have some rights? The prisoners that are up there for drugs, burglary, larceny, robbery, whatever they are up there for, don't they have the right not to have this guy in there with them? A cold blooded calculated murderer? Don't they have some rights to safety too? As bad as they are, even though they shouldn't have committed whatever crime they committed, don't even they have a right not to be put in with somebody like this? No contemporaneous objection was made to these remarks, and we find that they were not so inherently prejudicial as to deny Jimbo Stringer a fundamentally fair trial.