State v. Brown

RONALD R. HOLLIGER, Judge.

Thomas Brown, Jr., appeals his conviction following a jury trial for second degree murder and armed criminal action, for which he was sentenced to consecutive terms of fourteen years imprisonment for murder and four years for armed criminal action. He raises three points of trial court error, one of which is dispositive. 1 Brown argues that the trial court abused its discretion in overruling his objection in closing argument, when the assistant prosecutor commented on a defense witness who had testified that the assistant prosecutor had coached a witness. We reverse…