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Watch out about opening doors.

By Marks & Katz, LLC

Often prosecutors are fond of proclaiming that defense counsel "opened the door." Which door is the prosecutor talking of, seeing that hundreds of thousands of doors exist within as little as a  mile radius of many courthouses.  Paying homage to Lucy van Pelt, prosecutors of defendant Anthony Loyd Mitchell told the jury, during opening statements, of the the witnesses that the prosecution might or would call against Mitchell, but then some of the listed significant witnesses did not testify. In closing, the defense lawyer pointed out the prosecutor's unmet promises about the witnesses listed by the prosecutor who did not testify. Over the defendant's objections, the judge allowed the prosecutor to then point out to the jury that the defendant could have subpoenaed said witnesses to court but did not...continue to full post

Full post as published by Underdog on April 17, 2009 (boomark / email).