Liberatore v. Thompson

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• finding that initial trial determination that misconduct did not warrant a mistrial would not be given priority over “ultimate conclusion, informed by the verdict, that misconduct had cumulatively colored the result.”
• upholding the grant of a motion for a new trial based on the violation of an order in limine where counsel did not object until after counsel’s arguments
• “We know of no rule, nor would we adopt a rule, that a lawyer has insufficiently preserved an objection to improper argument by embodying the objection in a successful motion in limine in advance of argument.”
• “We do not believe that our supreme court intends to require the trial judge to render a written opinion setting forth his rationale for granting a new trial motion or to undertake a lengthy review of the facts. Rule 59(m

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