Matter of Evangelina C. v. Maksim K.

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• finding that defendant's substantial rights were not affected where the trial court twice instructed the jury that the attorneys' opening and closing statements were not evidence
• noting that the evidence is “material if, considering the entire record, it creates a reasonable doubt as to the defendant’s guilt that would not otherwise exist” [internal citation omitted]
• not improper to label defense argument “insult” where “remark was designed to demonstrate the lack of evidence to support the self-defense claim”
• evidentiary rulings “are matters entrusted to the trial judge’s broad discretion and are not disturbed absent palpable error”
• evidentiary rulings are “entrusted to the trial judge’s broad discretion and are not disturbed absent palpable error”
• defendant’s statement showing state of mind admissible notwithstanding that “in other circumstances [it] could tend to prove guilt by evidence of bad character”

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