Court Opinion

ID: 9585703
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-21 23:03:06.069918+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T17:22:07.388146
License: Public Domain

Coleman, J.
concurring,
I agree with the majority that the evidence was sufficient to support the Commonwealth’s attorney’s argument that the planned scheme was an “operating procedure of one type of crook” in which this defendant and her accomplices were engaged. Although the majority finds inappropriate in jury argument use of slang words such as “crook” or “case the joint,” they do not find it grounds for reversal. In my view, the Commonwealth’s attorney’s characterizing the defendant who has engaged in a criminal scheme and robbery as a “crook” and describing her actions as “case the joint” is within the prosecutor’s discretion, is wholly proper, and should be beyond our condemnation.