Hunt v. Commonwealth

How courts have described this case

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• finding harmless error where there was “no doubt” a qualifying relation would have been as emotional about the loss of the victim as the non-qualifying witness
• prosecutor’s statement “[h]as anybody seen any remorse from this defendant during the trial?” did not constitute an impermissible comment on defendant’s _Fifth Arriendment rights
• “The trial court’s decision not to give a jury instruction is reviewed for abuse of discretion.”
• “[W]e are not persuaded that the single reference to Hunt’s invoking his right to remain silent resulted in palpable error.”
• “Because the prosecutorial conduct complained of by Hunt occurred in a pretrial setting, the presumption of vindictiveness doctrine is inapplicable.”
• \A prosecutor is entitled to comment on the courtroom demeanor of a defendant.\

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).