Dillard v. State

Summary

The Supreme Court affirmed Dillard’s convictions and sentence after independently reviewing the record under the withdrawal procedure for appointed appellate counsel. It held that neither challenged prosecutorial statement constituted reversible plain error: the reference to other defendants’ resolved cases was not sufficiently prejudicial, and the description of the location of a DNA-bearing mask was not materially misleading in context. The Court also found the appeal wholly without merit and deemed counsel’s motion to withdraw moot.