Court Opinion

ID: 9815201
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-09-01 00:27:37.859831+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T18:01:17.210278
License: Public Domain

PREGERSON, Circuit Judge,
dissenting:
I respectfully dissent. The Assistant U.S. Attorney violated the rules of permissible questioning and argument; forgot that our government’s interest “in a criminal prosecution is not that it shall win ..., but that justice shall be done,” Berger v. United States, 295 U.S. 78, 88, 55 S.Ct. 629, 79 L.Ed. 1314 (1935) (Sutherland, J.); and ignored Justice Sutherland’s admonition that a prosecutor “may strike hard blows, but not foul ones.” Id.
These serious violations do not warrant invocation of the plain error rule.