Daye v. United States

FARRELL, Associate Judge:

Found guilty by a jury of first-degree murder while armed, related weapons offenses, and obstruction of justice, appellant contends primarily that the trial judge allowed the government to bolster the testimony of two key witnesses improperly by introducing their prior consistent statements without meeting the evidentiary requirement for admission of such statements. He argues that the prosecutor then compounded the prejudice that the statements caused him by asserting — both in examination of the witnesses and in summation — what amounted to her personal belief in…