Although it was error for the Trial Assistant, on summation, to bolster the credibility of the undercover officer by stating "[w]ell, that is to say Officer Harris is not worthy of your belief and I submit to you does that make sense * * * that a police officer is going to get on the stand [and] risk perjuring himself under oath?", it was a brief, isolated comment within a summation that never moved the focus away from the agency defense to the credibility of the police officer...
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