Opinion ID: 170276
Heading Depth: 3
Heading Rank: 1

Heading: Sixty-eight instances alleged

Text: Mr. Brown raised multiple (sixty-eight) instances of alleged prosecutorial misconduct involving the State's introduction of gruesome autopsy photographs, race-baiting, the injection of gang evidence into the trial, as well as a litany of other purportedly improper statements and arguments that the prosecutor made. Applying AEDPA's deferential standard of review, we note that [g]enerally, a prosecutor's improper remarks require reversal of a state conviction only if the remarks `so infected the trial with unfairness as to make the resulting conviction a denial of due process.' Le v. Mullin, 311 F.3d 1002, 1013 (10th Cir.2002) (quoting Donnelly DeChristoforo, 416 U.S. 637, 643, 94 S.Ct. 1868, 40 L.Ed.2d 431 (1974)). Alternatively, if the alleged prosecutorial misconduct denied the petitioner a specific constitutional right (rather than the general due process right to a fair trial), a valid habeas corpus claim may be established without proof that the entire trial was rendered fundamentally unfair. Id.