Is it improper for a prosecutor to accuse a defense counsel of fabricating a defense or imply that counsel is free to deceive the jury?
California, United States of America
The following excerpt is from People v. Baskin, F066129 (Cal. App. 2015):
It is generally improper for the prosecutor to accuse defense counsel of fabricating a defense or to imply that counsel is free to deceive the jury. (People v. Bemore (2000) 22 Cal.4th 809, 846.) "When a prosecutor denigrates defense counsel, it directs the jury's
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