State v. Evans

I

Appellant alleges in his first proposition of law that the prosecution engaged in misconduct in the guilt and mitigation phases of the trial.

A

Appellant challenges the following comments by the prosecutor during his closing argument in the mitigation phase:

“MR. HUDSON: * * * What do you think life imprisonment means? Twelve years later he’s out. And inside of three months, he had killed two more people. And they come here and say give us mercy. Life imprisonment?

“Mr. Saferin stands up here and talks to you about years and totals. I could tell you three or four different ways that that’s not a…