Court Opinion

ID: 9655805
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-23 19:22:37.225734+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T18:13:22.207907
License: Public Domain

TOBIAS, J.,
concurs in part and dissents in part.
1,1 respectfully concur in the result reached by the majority. The decision of the trial court is properly affirmed.
However, I respectfully dissent from the majoritys holding that the “state exceeded the bounds of proper argument and the district court abused its discretion by overruling the defense’s objection [during the prosecution’s rebuttal].” The prosecution’s statement that witnesses who were not called to testify were available to both the state and the defendant is merely a statement of fact and within the parameters of State v. Clark, 01-2087 (La.App. 4 Cir. 9/25/02), 828 So.2d 1173, and its progeny. Thus, I find no abuse of discretion or error of the part of the trial judge, and the majority errors in finding that the statement was harmless error. No error occurred, harmless or otherwise.