People v. Santiago

Defense counsel’s failure to object to the prosecutor’s use during summation of a PowerPoint presentation that manipulated the evidence, and was designed to inflame the passion of the jury in order to engender prejudice against the defendant, constitutes an error of the type that so tainted the jury’s deliberative process as to deny defendant a fair trial. Given the egregious nature of defense counsel’s error, I disagree with the majority’s conclusion that defendant received meaningful representation. Therefore, I dissent.

*752We have admonished that the prosecutor’s summation “should not seek to…