People v. DeSantiago

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• concluding that trial court’s instruction that closing argument does not constitute evidence mitigates any potential prejudice arising from improper closing argument
• concluding that trial court's instruction that closing argument does not constitute evidence mitigates any potential prejudice arising from improper closing argument
• holding that one witness's trial testimony concerning a second witness's grand jury testimony did not violate the confrontation clause when the second witness testified at trial that he had no memory of the grand jury proceeding
• holding that State's send-a-message comment did not rise to plain error
• explaining that references to defense counsel as a “professional defense attorney” were not pejorative because the jury likely understood that the attorneys on both sides were professionals
• distinguishing between remarks directed toward sending a message to a specific defendant and sending a message to the community at large

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