United States v. Raynard Carroll

HARRISON L. WINTER, Chief Judge:

A jury found defendant guilty of bank robbery, bank larceny, and assault with a dangerous weapon during a bank robbery, in connection with the armed robbery at the Savings Bank of Baltimore in Baltimore, Maryland on October 24, 1980. In defendant’s appeal from the judgment entered on the verdict, the question presented is whether certain remarks made by the prosecutor during closing arguments to the jury constitute reversible error. We conclude that the remarks were improper and prejudicial, and that, under the facts of this case, the curative instructions…