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WILLIAMS v. STATE

No. 12, 2002.

803 A.2d 927 (2002)

Roland WILLIAMS, Defendant Below, Appellant, v. STATE of Delaware, Plaintiff Below, Appellee.

Supreme Court of Delaware.

Decided: July 8, 2002.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Sandra W. Dean, Assistant Public Defender, Office of the Public Defender, Dover, Delaware, for Appellant.

William M. Kelleher, Deputy Attorney General, Department of Justice, Wilmington, Delaware, for Appellee.

Before WALSH, BERGER, and STEELE, Justices.

PER CURIAM:

In this appeal from the Superior Court, we once again confront the problem of improper prosecutorial argument. We conclude that the prosecutor's remarks, characterizing the defendant in this case as "lying" and proposing that the jury must find the State's witnesses to be lying in order to acquit the defendant, were so patently improper that the trial judge should have intervened sua sponte to issue a curative instruction or enter a mistrial. The...

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