Michaels v. State

JACOBS, Justice.

Lawrence Michaels, Tyreese Hawthorne and Andre Wright, the codefendants below, appeal from final judgments of conviction by the Superior Court. All three defendants claim that the Superior Court abused its discretion by denying a motion for a mistrial after the introduction of allegedly irrelevant and prejudicial evidence. Michaels and Hawthorne raise additional claims. Michaels separately claims that the trial judge violated his right to a fair trial by asking the prosecutor to stand several feet away from him (Michaels) while questioning him about a gun the prosecutor was…