Stating it would “not sanction a verbal free-for-all” for questionable remarks made by prosecutors during closing arguments, the Appellate Court’s April 23 decision to remand a manslaughter case marks the third time within roughly a month where a criminal conviction was uprooted due to prosecutorial misconduct.
Deputy Assistant Public Defender Moira L. Buckley said the latest appellate ruling in State v. Ryan Thompson-in which the court describes the impropriety at one juncture as exceeding “all bounds of acceptable conduct” — might further awaken attorneys to their conduct during closing arguments.
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