State v. Miles

¶1 — Nathaniel W. Miles appeals his conviction of delivery of a controlled substance, arguing that the prosecutor committed flagrant misconduct by questioning defense witnesses about Miles’s participation in specific boxing matches, during the time Miles claimed to be incapacitated, without producing extrinsic evidence of those fights. He also argues that the prosecutor improperly shifted the burden of proof to Miles by asserting that the jury had to find that the State’s witnesses were lying in order to acquit Miles. Because the prosecutor’s questioning of the defense witnesses amounted to…