State v. Thompson

A prosecutor’s excessive use of the word “victim” is objectionable when the commission of a crime is at issue “because prevalent use of the term may cause the jury to draw an improper inference that the defendant committed a crime against the complainant.”State v. Warholic, 278 Conn. 354, 370 n.7, 897 A.2d 569 (2006); see also State v. Victor O., 301 Conn. 163, 191 n.11, 20 A.3d 669, cert. denied, 565 U.S. 1039, 132 S. Ct. 583, 181 L. Ed. 2d 429 (2011). It is properly disfavored and can form the basis, depending on the circumstances, of a prosecutorial impropriety claim.

It is, however,…