DeSersa v. State
Wyoming Supreme Court
1Opinion of the Court
URBIGKIT, Justice.
A conviction of attempted burglary raises appeal claims of insufficiency of the evidence and impermissible prosecutorial comment, violating the constitutional right against self-incrimination. We affirm.
Stated issues to be considered are:
1. Sufficiency of the evidence for conviction as a matter of law.
2. Comment of prosecutor in final argument violated defendant’s constitutional rights and required a mistrial then and a reversal now.
FACTS
As generally explained in the background statement in appellant’s brief:
“On July 30, 1985, [the City of] Casper was observing a yearly…
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