State v. Tripp

WATHEN, Chief Justice.

Defendant Linwood Tripp, Sr., appeals from a judgment entered in the Superior Court (Oxford County, Brodrick, J.) on a jury verdict convicting him of three counts of gross sexual assault.1 Defendant contends that the State was guilty of misconduct during trial and that certain evidence should have been excluded. We agree that the State’s questioning of defendant whether another witness lied and the prosecutor’s statement of personal opinion in closing argument concerning the credibility of witnesses constitute obvious error. We therefore vacate the judgment.

Defendant was…