State v. Walker

¶1 Odies Delandus Walker was convicted as an accomplice to first degree murder, first degree assault, first degree robbery, solicitation, and conspiracy. The primary question in this case is whether those convictions must be reversed in light of the PowerPoint presentation the prosecuting attorney used during closing argument. That presentation repeatedly expressed the prosecutor’s personal opinion on guilt — over 100 of its approximately 250 slides were headed with the words “DEFENDANT WALKER GUILTY OF PREMEDITATED MURDER,” and one slide showed Walker’s booking photograph altered with the…