Opinion ID: 304597
Heading Depth: 3
Heading Rank: 1

Heading: During his cross-examination of Rudolph Ford, the prosecutor asked:

Text: 14 Q. By the way, sir, you didn't give a statement to the police did you? 15 A. No, sir, I didn't. 16 Q. You didn't give a typewritten statement the next day like some of the other witnesses, did you? 17 A. No, sir, because I don't know nothing about it. 18 The trial judge interrupted, warning, 19 There is no indication Mr. [Prosecutor] this man was interviewed by the police. I think that question is not appropriate unless there is some indication that police interviewed him. 20 The prosecutor then asked whether Ford had contacted the police; he had not. In his argument to the jury, the prosecutor, seeking to portray Ford's alibi testimony as a fabrication, put it: 21 A man who never gave a statement, his name never comes up in the investigation, all of a sudden he shows up and testifies that the Defendant was with him. 22