MUNISING, MI (AP)-- A prosecutor's inflammatory remarks about medical marijuana have cost her a conviction in Alger County.
The Michigan appeals court says Paul Heminger apparently was growing more marijuana than allowed under law, but the verdict last year was spoiled by the closing argument of prosecutor Karen Bahrman.
The court says Bahrman embarked on a "personal diatribe" to discredit the medical marijuana law. She told jurors that a local pro-marijuana group wants a "country where everybody can walk around stoned."
In a 3-0 decision Friday, the appeals court cited many other comments and said the prosecutor's argument was "thoroughly improper."
Heminger was sentenced to six months in jail.