Can a prosecutor's comment that malingering is a myth be used to denigrate defense counsel personally?

California, United States of America


The following excerpt is from People v. Baskin, F066129 (Cal. App. 2015):

potentially harm anyone else. The prosecutor's intention was likely not to denigrate defense counsel personally, but to merely respond to counsel's closing argument that malingering was a myth. (See People v. Zambrano (2007) 41 Cal.4th 1082, 1155 ["It was clear the prosecutor's comment was aimed solely at the persuasive force of defense counsel's closing argument, and not at counsel personally"], overruled on another point in People v. Doolin, supra, 45 Cal.4th at p. 421, fn. 22.)

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