Erick Lawson v. Victoria Rodriguez and Concepcion Portillo

How courts have described this case

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• reviewing for abuse of discretion where case was tried prior to Silva-Santiago decision and no voir dire conducted
• “The defendant fails to address the fact that almost all of what he contends he wanted to raise was, in fact, asked”
• no error in admitting evidence showing defendant’s access to and familiarity with firearms allegedly dissimilar to murder weapon, when appropriate limiting instruction given
• proper to admit evidence of defendant's familiarity with guns and bullets even though not similar to murder weapon
• “In closing argument, counsel ‘may argue from the evidence and may argue fair inferences that might be drawn from the evidence’ ”
• court properly denied new trial motion where there was no credible evidence that prosecutor had undisclosed agreements with witness

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).