Jonathan Bartlett v. Deirdre Battaglia, Warden, 1

How courts have described this case

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• declining to extend Sullivan’s structural error analysis to prosecutorial argument misstating the burden of proof
• declining to extend Sullivan to a prosecutor's misstatements regarding reasonable doubt
• “While we strongly disapprove of the prosecution’s clumsy attempts to discuss the burden of proof, these comments simply could not have poisoned the jury’s understanding in the same manner an erroneous jury instruction would have.”

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