Summary
concluding that a prosecutor's statements that defense counsel's "theory of the case was ‘ bunch of crap’ " and the defendant has "[n]ot only ... blown smoke in your faces, but he's blown smoke in another part of your body" expressed an "impermissible personal opinion" regarding the defense (first alteration in original)
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No. COA 15–676.
03-15-2016
STATE of North Carolina v. Eddie Ray MAYE, Defendant.
Attorney General Roy A. Cooper, III, by Special Deputy Attorney General L. Michael Dodd, for the State. Narendra K. Ghosh, for the Defendant.
Attorney General Roy A. Cooper, III, by Special Deputy Attorney General L. Michael Dodd, for the State.
Narendra K. Ghosh, for the Defendant.
Opinion
Appeal by Defendant from judgment entered 27 May 2014 by Judge W. David Lee in Union County Superior Court. Heard in the Court of Appeals 16 November 2015. Union County, No. 10CRS053635.