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· 6/18/2008

Dunn v. Sears

Citations

  • 561 F. Supp. 2d 444
  • 2008 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 47615
  • 2008 WL 2485431

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

  • “If there is clear evidence of guilt, prosecutorial misconduct on summation is considered harmless error.”
  • “If there is clear evidence of guilt, prosecutorial misconduct on summation is considered harmless error.”
  • severity of improper comments mitigated where the comments were “brief and isolated” and “not repeated after a sustained objection”
  • “It is well-settled that the propriety of comments made by a prosecutor on summation generally does not present a federal constitutional violation”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Judges: Victor Marrero

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