The overriding issue presented at trial was whether complainant Brown could identify the defendants as two of the four individuals who had robbed him. During the course of the Assistant District Attorney's summation, the lower court made the following comment with regard to the complainant: "He remembers the fact of the height, he remembers the beard, he remembers the face, he had an opportunity to observe him." The afore-mentioned remark improperly buttressed the prosecution...
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