People v. Johnson

This opinion indicates that trial court discretion is abused in permitting prosecutorial cross-examination and argument tending to show (1) that a jury may consider defendant’s poverty and unemployment in deciding whether or not he is guilty of carrying a concealed weapon (CCW) and (2) that defendant because of his poverty and unemployment was about to employ three loaded weapons in the car occupied by him to commit a crime of violence, when the only crime charged was CCW.

While defendant in the instant case raises a number of other allegations of error in this appeal, it is only these issues…