Karl Justa Brasil v. Secretary, Department of Homeland Security

How courts have described this case

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• prosecutor's characterization of defendant as thief was \innocuous\ in light of more incriminating evidence that jury had heard about him
• \These questions suggest that the jury engaged in a careful and thorough examination of the evidence ...\
• improper for prosecutor to argue that jury should consider evidence of defendant’s bad character as proof that he or she committed crime
• prosecutor entitled to question defendant regarding his direct testimony that he had told victim he was on probation for selling cocaine
• risk of prejudice in prosecutor’s closing argument remedied by judge’s prompt instruction

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).