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PEOPLE v. ALVARADO

No. B183150.

47 Cal.Rptr.3d 289 (2006)

141 Cal.App.4th 1577

The PEOPLE, Plaintiff and Respondent, v. Jaime ALVARADO, Defendant and Appellant.

Court of Appeal of California, Second District, Division One.

August 16, 2006.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

David M. Thompson, under appointment by the Court of Appeal, for Defendant and Appellant.

Bill Lockyer, Attorney General, Robert R. Anderson, Chief Assistant Attorney General, Pamela C. Hamanaka, Assistant Attorney General, Robert F. Katz and Robert C. Schneider, Deputy Attorneys General, for Plaintiff and Respondent.

ROTHSCHILD, J.

We hold that the prosecutor in this case committed prejudicial misconduct when she began her rebuttal jury argument by stating, "I have a duty and I have taken an oath as a deputy District Attorney not to prosecute a case if I have any doubt that that crime occurred. [¶] The defendant charged is the person who did it."

A jury convicted Jaime Alvarado of second degree robbery (Pen.Code, &...

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