Judgment reversed on the law and the facts and a new trial ordered.
The prosecutor improperly used extrinsic evidence to discredit the denial, by appellant's codefendant, that he had participated in other crimes, in which crimes the jury might have been led to believe appellant was implicated, and referred in his summation to matter which the jury could not properly consider in its deliberations. In our opinion this deprived appellant of a fair trial (People v...
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