Duckett v. Mullin, No. 00-6292 (10th Cir.) (306 F.3d 982) (September 4, 2002) (Judge Carlos Lucero)
Loaded on Aug. 1, 2002
published in Punch and Jurists
August 19, 2002
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Improper Comments.
Although a district attorney's "inappropriate" commentary at trial was intentional and calculated, a habeas petitioner could not show that prosecutorial misconduct so infected the trial as to make the proceeding
fundamentally unfair.
This case is a farce. In 1988, the petitioner, Robert Don Duckett, was convicted of first-degree …
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