Freeman v. United States

TERRY, Associate Judge:

Appellant was charged with attempted second-degree burglary 1 and destruction of property. 2 A jury found him guilty of the former offense but acquitted him of the latter. On appeal he argues that the evidence was insufficient to sustain his conviction and that the prosecutor, while cross-examining him, committed misconduct by summarizing the testimony of government witnesses and then asking appellant if he knew of any reason why they would lie. The sufficiency argument is entirely without merit. We agree with appellant that the prosecutor’s questioning was improper,…