Holmberg v. Merrick

How courts have described this case

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

• \Prosecutors may not make comments calculated to arouse the passions or prejudices of the jury.\
• “[W]e have allowed the prosecution to prove materiality . . . by presenting testimony from a member of the grand jury . . . .”
• prosecutors may not “point to a particular crisis in our society and ask the jury to make a statement” with their verdict
• “Summaries are normally prepared by an interested party and therefore may not be completely accurate or may be tainted with the preparing party’s bias.”
• “Summaries ... must be scrutinized by the trial court to ensure that they are accurate, complete, not unduly prejudicial, limited to the relevant issues, and confined by appropriate jury instructions.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).