STATE v. REED

No. 90-760.

482 N.W.2d 672 (1992)

STATE of Iowa, Appellee, v. Dwight Charles REED, Appellant.

Supreme Court of Iowa.

March 18, 1992.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Linda Del Gallo, State Appellate Defender, and Shari Barron, Asst. State Appellate Defender, for appellant.

Bonnie J. Campbell, Atty. Gen., Bruce Kempkes, Asst. Atty. Gen., Thomas J. Ferguson, County Atty., and D. Raymond Walton, Asst. County Atty., for appellee.

Considered by LARSON, P.J., and SCHULTZ, CARTER, NEUMAN and SNELL, JJ.


NEUMAN, Justice.

We granted the State's petition for further review after the court of appeals reversed defendant Dwight Reed's conviction for possession of cocaine with intent to deliver. The question is whether a comment made by the district court during jury voir dire so damaged the credibility of Reed's key witness that he was denied a fair trial. Having examined the court's statement in the context of the entire record, we are convinced that the court's error...

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