The Story of Maurice Montgomery - Case Study Example

Basis of AppealOver the course of a four-month period, undercover police officers purchased crack cocaine from a known drug dealer on no fewer than six occasions. These buys ranged from one to seven ounces of crack cocaine, which was signed under existing Texas statute. After a Grand Jury indictment, Montgomery was tried and convicted of several of the charges levied against him and sentenced to 160 months imprisonment. The appeal that was lodged was based on the following five premises: Sufficiency of evidence, the Jencks Act, Evidentiary Matters, the Batson Challenge, and prosecutorial misconduct.

DispositionIn the end, all of the facts pertaining to the case lead to the Appellate court upholding the conviction. In the case of prosecutorial misconduct, for example, the defense contended that several remarked were made the prosecutor that was improper. One of these occasions had the prosecutor issuing an opinion that alleged guilt on the part of the defendant. In the end, however, the court found that Montgomery failed to adequately demonstrate that the closing arguments issued by the prosecutorial team did not violate his substantive rights and that nothing improper was said.