Supreme Court won't wade into dispute over prosecutor testifying at trial | CNN Politics

The Supreme Court declined on Monday to take up the appeal of a man from Louisiana who says he was denied the right to a fair trial when prosecutors called the assistant district attorney – who presented the case to the grand jury – to the witness stand. Justice Sonia Sotomayor, joined by Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, dissented from the court’s decision not to take up the case. Jackson and Sotomayor also voted together in a separate dispute Monday concerning an appeal from an inmate.

The court held that the evidence presented at trial supported Anthony’s conviction even without the testimony of the prosecutor, Assistant District Attorney Thomas Block. Anthony’s lawyers told the Supreme Court in court papers that the prosecutorial testimony was “antithetical to the presumption of innocence and fair trial” and said that calling up Block “shattered norms.” Sotomayor echoed those arguments in her dissent.

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