State v. Peppers
Annotate this CaseDefendant Antwan Peppers was convicted of first-degree premeditated murder and attempted first-degree murder. The Supreme Court affirmed Peppers' convictions and sentences, holding (1) the district judge did not abuse her discretion by admitting gang affiliation evidence with a limiting instruction; (2) the jury instructions on the gang affiliation evidence and the instruction that another trial would be a burden on both sides were not error; and (3) although the prosecutor committed misconduct during closing argument by straying into impermissible expressions of the prosecutor's personal opinion on Peppers' guilt, there was no reasonable possibility that the prosecutor's expressions of personal opinion about Peppers' guilt affected the jury's verdict.
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