Criminal Justice § 3-1.2(b) and (c) (3d ed. 1993) (hereinafter ABA Standards) (“The duty of the prosecutor is to seek justice, not merely to convict.”). ¶29 It is well settled that a prosecutor may not make derisive comments about opposing counsel. United States v. Frederick (9th Cir. 1996), 78 F.3d 1370, 1379-80 (reversed for cumulative error including comments about defense counsel’s skill in confusing a witness and saying that defense counsel would ask the jury to consider bits and pieces of the evidence); Bruno v. Rushen (9th Cir. 1983), 721 F.2d 1193, 1195, cert, denied, 469 U.S. 920, 105 S.Ct. 302, 83 L.Ed.2d 236 (1984) (criticizing prosecution’s statements that defense counsel acted in underhanded and unethical ways); United States v. Rodrigues (9th Cir. 1998), 159 F.3d 439, 451 (<HOLDING>); United States v. Friedman (2d Cir. 1990), 909
holding prosecutors statement that defendant and defense counsel were lying when they pleaded not guilty was improper holding that the prosecutors request that the jury send a message to the community was improper in the guilt phase of the trial but was not so flagrantly improper as to constitute plain error holding that the prosecutors statements that defense counsel had from the start been trying to deceive the jury and had told the jury what was flat out untrue were improper holding no error was committed when trial court held defense counsel in contempt in front of the jury though it would have been the better practice to reprimand counsel and impose the fine in the absence of the jury holding prosecutors argument that defense counsels goal was to keep evidence from the jury was improper