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Overzealous argument gives defendant a new trial

A prosecutor's overzealous closing argument doomed the verdict, unduly prejudicing the defendant when he "inflamed the passions of the jury" by asking them to find the defendant guilty to "make the whole county safe," found a united Appellate Court of Illinois, Fifth District, panel.But defendant Howard C. Liner is not out of the fray yet, ...

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