Court Opinion

ID: 9541381
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-07 16:24:58.939295+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T15:02:48.467844
License: Public Domain

BRETT, Presiding Judge,
specially concurring in results:
I concur that this conviction should be affirmed. However, I believe the better statement concerning closing argument by the prosecutor provides that the prosecutor is entitled to draw reasonable inferences and make reasonable comments on the interpretations of the evidence. This is the standard most recently utilized by this Court in its decision on the issue of prosecu-torial conduct. Cobbs v. State, 629 P.2d 368 (Okl.Cr.1981); Watt v. City of Oklahoma City, 628 P.2d 371 (Okl.Cr.1981); and Reeves v. State, 601 P.2d 113 (Okl.Cr.1979). The standard of “liberal freedom of speech” and “wide range of argument” implies to many prosecutors that the door is left wide-open concerning closing argument.