Jackson v. State

In this case, we write to address two issues-whether the prosecutor’s closing argument improperly made a case for the credibility of a state witness and whether the testimony of two detectives about the reluctance of witnesses in the neighborhood of the shooting to be seen cooperating with the police was irrelevant and unduly prejudicial. Finding no error, we affirm.

I. Facts

A grand jury indicted Michael L. Jackson Jr. for first-degree murder with a firearm. The charge arose from eighteen-year-old Jackson’s shooting of a drug dealer, Jenoi Hand, on a street in West Palm Beach. The state’s…