State v. McDonald
Annotate this CaseAfter a jury trial, Defendant was convicted of assault on a peace officer, a felony, for biting a detention officer on the arm. Defendant appealed, arguing that the prosecutor's comments during closing argument constituted misconduct and warranted reversal of her conviction under plain error review. Defendant argued that the prosecutor repeatedly made direct comments about the reliability of the witnesses, and thus the prosecutor vouched for the witnesses and attempted to interject his personal opinion. The Supreme Court affirmed, holding that when viewed in the context of the entire argument, the challenged comments made in closing argument did not raise the specter of prosecutorial misconduct necessitating the exercise of plain error review to protect fundamental fairness of this proceeding.
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