Court Opinion

ID: 9466018
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-05 01:03:14.29044+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T17:39:30.081854
License: Public Domain

ROSS, Circuit Judge,
concurring.
I concur in the judgment affirming the conviction, but I feel obligated to point out and deplore the use of an unfair argument by the prosecutor to the jury.
. Even though no one testified that the defendant even touched the car, or in particular the distributor wire, prior to the assault, the prosecutor, argued to the jury that the evidence showed that the defendant disabled the car by disconnecting the distributor wire. This overreaching by the prosecution was, in my opinion, most unfair and should not pass unnoticed.
In my opinion the evidence bearing on premeditation was adequate without this argument and thus I would hold the prosecutor’s argument to be error but not prejudicial.