A New Jersey prosecutor’s expansive opening statement in an armed-robbery case—suggesting that he was the jury’s personal advocate and that the defendant was a known threat in his community—prompted reversal of a conviction on Wednesday.
The comments “implied the prosecutor and jury were members of the same group, to the exclusion of defendant” and portrayed the defendant as an “outcast,” an appeals court said in State v. Raiford.
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