People v. Serpa

How courts have described this case

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• finding no error because the prosecutor’s suggestion that the defense was attempting to “diver[t]” and “sidetrack” the jury conveyed the message that the jurors needed to consider the “specific evidence the defense had presented during the course of trial”
• permissible for counsel to make remarks suggesting that defense evidence was designed as a “diversion” to “sidetrack” the jury because they drew from evidence at trial
• remarks suggesting that evidence presented by defense was designed as a “diversion” and to “sidetrack” the jury from the central issue of the case not improper when made “in reference to specific evidence” presented

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).