Stokes v. State

MAXWELL, J.,

for the Court:

¶ 1. Damion Deandre Stokes seeks a new trial following his conviction for conspiracy to commit murder. He argues the State’s use of perjured testimony violated his due-process rights, rendering his trial “fundamentally unfair.” But after delving into Stokes’s argument, we find his actual *424complaint focuses on the prosecutor’s comments that he personally disbelieved one of the State’s witnesses, not on perjured testimony. And Stokes waived any appellate challenge to these statements by not contemporaneously objecting to them.

¶ 2. While we find the prosecutor’s comments…