United States Ninth Circuit

Prosecutor's soliloquy in the victim's voice during closing argument, while inappropriate, does not automatically violate a defendant's due process rights.

Appellate Information

• Decided 11/14/2000
• Published 11/15/2000

Judges

• GRABER, Circuit Judge:, Before:  ALDISERT,GRABER, and FISHER, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• David W. Fermino, Assistant Federal Public Defender, San Francisco, California, for the petitioner-appellant., John Thomas Drayden, pro se, Soledad, California, petitioner-appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Jeremy Friedlander, Deputy Attorney General, San Francisco, California, for the respondent-appellee.