Woodard v. United States

FARRELL, Senior Judge:

A partly reconstituted division of the court granted rehearing in this case to reconsider our previous holding that the prosecutor’s closing argument did not foster a misleading impression by the jury, sufficient to warrant reversal, of the credibility of an important government witness. See Woodard v. United States, 1 A.3d 371, 376 (D.C.2010). We now hold that the argument in question might well have improperly bolstered the witness’s credibility in jurors’ minds, and that because the trial judge declined to adopt a corrective measure reasonably proposed by the defense,…