Yates v. State

OPINION

By the Court,

Springer, J. :

This case is about prosecutorial misconduct. Appellants claim that the District Attorney of Washoe County was guilty of misconduct of such magnitude as to deny them a fair trial. There is no question about the presence of multiple acts of unprofessional conduct in this case, the question is whether in the particular case justice requires us to reverse and send the case back for retrial.

There is pervasive and admitted prosecutorial misconduct throughout this case; however, because the defendants failed to object to the prosecutor’s improper statements to the…