Opinion ID: 784041
Heading Depth: 4
Heading Rank: 1

Heading: Victim-Impact and Improper Argument

Text: 152 During his opening statement, the prosecutor introduced testimony regarding the size of the victim's family. The victim's daughter also testified to the extent of the victim's remaining family members. We refuse to hold that these two comments, made to a three-judge panel, so infected the trial as to render it fundamentally unfair. 153 Smith further objects to the prosecutor's comment describing the crime as cold and calculating, his statement that Smith robbed the victim while blood spurted out her neck, and his statement that Smith got up the next morning and celebrated. We believe that these statements are reasonable inferences drawn from the evidence presented at trial. See Byrd v. Collins, 209 F.3d 486, 536 (6th Cir.2000). In any event, these statements, like the preceding ones, were not so egregious as to render the trial fundamentally unfair. See id. 154