People v. Sanchez

Opinion

KING, Acting P. J.

I. INTRODUCTION

A jury convicted defendant and appellant Jose Cesar Sanchez of grand theft of copper wire. (Pen. Code, § 487, subd. (a).) He was sentenced to three years in county jail. On appeal, defendant contends that four statements made by the prosecutor during closing argument deprived him of his constitutional rights to due process and a fair trial in two respects. First, the prosecutor committed Griffin 1 error by implicating defendant’s failure to testify. Second, the prosecutor made inflammatory statements about defendant and the jurors. We hold that one…