Opinion ID: 2408540
Heading Depth: 3
Heading Rank: 4

Heading: Wondering if Sandra Buttry Thought She Was Lucky

Text: The prosecution argued: I wonder if Sandra Buttry thinks she was lucky. I wonder as she was jumping from that car and she took a bullet in the back. Kenley contends that this amounts to improper personalization or arguing facts outside the record. The argument was not improper personalization. It did not suggest personal danger to the jurors or their families if Kenley were acquitted. In Storey , we found that an argument by a prosecutor that included the word wonder turned the prosecutor into an unsworn witness. Storey, supra, at 901. In Storey , however, the amount of testifying by the prosecutor outweighed the amount in this case. In this case, the wonder was merely an inartful way of arguing that Ms. Buttry suffered greatly from the misfortune of her chance meeting with Kenley. Failing to object to this proper argument was not ineffective assistance.