State v. Roscoe

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Discussion

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The Prosecutor's Closing Argument

The defendant argues that the trial justice erred by failing to declare a mistrial after the prosecutor made inappropriate, pungent, vulgar, and inaccurate remarks during the course of his closing argument. In this regard, defendant argues that the prosecutor strayed beyond the bounds of proper conduct during his closing arguments in three separate instances: (1) the prosecutor referred to the rules of hearsay as the reason he "couldn't say things[,]" (2)

*1237the prosecutor misstated the medical examiner's testimony, and (3) the prosecutor claimed…