HAMMOCKS COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION, INC. v. STATE OF FLORIDA

How courts have described this case

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• holding that, although prosecutor improperly appealed to jury’s sympathy by commenting on victim, remarks were isolated and were not significant or focal portion of prosecutor’s closing
• improper closing remarks “adequately offset by the judge’s careful and clear instructions describing the role of closing argument”
• no substantial likelihood of miscarriage of justice where improper “remarks were isolated and were not a significant or even a focal portion of the prosecutor’s closing”
• jury presumed to recognize that “prosecutor is an advocate”

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