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THE PROSECUTOR’S REMARKS REQUIRED REVERSAL AND A NEW TRIAL ON ONE COUNT (SECOND DEPT).

The Second Department reversed defendant’s conviction on one count (attempted assault), in the interest of justice (i.e. the issue was not preserved), based upon prosecutorial misconduct:

The prosecutor made a number of improper comments during her summation by improperly vouching for the credibility of the People’s witnesses, interjecting sympathy, improperly advising the jurors on the law, and making herself an unsworn witness … .For example, when discussing the charge of attempted assault in the first degree, the prosecutor attempted to explain why no shell casings were recovered by informing the jurors that “unfortunately [the Evidence Crime Team] confine[d] themselves to where the crime scene tape was,” although no such evidence exists in the record. … [T]he prosecutor referred to testimony that had been stricken … when she told the jury that … the defendant could have shot one of the witnesses. The prosecutor also informed the jury that the voice of that same witness could be heard screaming on an audio recording of a call to the 911 emergency number. The prosecutor also twice erroneously advised the jury that its credibility determination should be based on, among other things, “what [the jurors] felt” … , and, when discussing the credibility of the prosecution’s witnesses, instructed the jury that the criminal history of one of the prosecution’s witnesses was not relevant to the question of that witness’s credibility. People v Veeney, 2021 NY Slip Op 04673, Second Dept 8-11-21

 

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