Court Opinion

ID: 9459629
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-04 21:26:45.865322+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T17:36:15.369417
License: Public Domain

HAYS, Circuit Judge:
I reluctantly dissent.
Unlike the majority I can find no suggestion in what the prosecutor said during the trial that, for example, blacks are more likely to commit crimes than whites or that black witnesses are less reliable than white. What I find is such dismal (and untrue) clichés as that all blacks look alike or that all black girls are sexually promiscuous or that black hairdos are particularly unattractive.
Influenced by understandable outrage at the nauseating remarks of the prosecutor, my colleagues have been led to disregard the difference between revolting vulgarity and unconstitutionally prejudicial conduct.