Court Opinion

ID: 9609419
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-22 03:26:59.091991+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T18:02:50.431105
License: Public Domain

ROSE, Chief Justice,
specially concurring.
The majority unnecessarily conclude that, had the prosecutor not committed error in rebuttal, this court woúld have condoned whatever misconduct he committed in his argument-in-chief. This is dicta, in view of the fact that the opinion reverses based on the prosecutor’s rebuttal argument. I would not have condoned what the prosecutor said in his principal argument, but, in any event, I would have left the discussion out of the opinion since it is not necessary to the holding.
The record should reflect that I find the prosecutor’s remarks made in both the argument-in-chief and in rebuttal to be misconduct, warranting reversal.