People v. Cisewski

How courts have described this case

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• holding that prosecutor’s statement to the jury, “ ‘Now is the time, Ladies and Gentlemen, to remove the cloak of innocence from this defendant’ ” was not an improper misstatement of presumption of innocence
• Finding no error where the prosecutor stated, “ ‘Now is the time, Ladies and Gentlemen, to remove the cloak of innocence from this defendant ***.’ ”
• comments by State were not of such a magnitude as to have altered the trier of fact’s determination of defendant’s guilt
• one of the factors to be considered in determining whether a new trial is warranted for a discovery violation is the closeness of the evidence
• comments by State were not of such a magnitude as to have altered the trier of fact’s determination of defendant’s guilt
• “[t]o constitute reversible error, the complained-of remarks must have resulted in substantial prejudice to the accused, such that absent those remarks the verdict would have been different”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).