Rosa v. State

COPE, Judge.

Defendant Miguel Rosa appeals his conviction for trespass and resisting arrest, claiming improper comment by the court and prosecutor during voir dire of the jury panel. We affirm.

At the start of jury selection, the court gave introductory remarks to the prospective jurors, including the following:

[W]hen you are charged with a crime in our Country, as you know, you are presumed to be innocent. We already talked about that, but you are presumed to be innocent. You don’t have to prove your innocence because you come in here with that presumption. Mr. Rosa does not have to testify.…