Judgment reversed, on the law, and new trial ordered.
The sole issue at trial was identification and was dependent upon the testimony of a single witness. In summation, the prosecutor argued that there was no motivation for that witness to lie since "[h]e's a black man. There is nothing racial that could suggest to you that he's picking out Lenwood Green because he's a black man and [the witness] is a white man. He, himself, is a black man." The defendant's objection...
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