Protest 989751-G of California Ship Supply Co.

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• weighing in favor of a finding that the error was not harmless the fact that the prosecu- tor’s improper statement was relevant to an issue “critical to the prosecution’s case” rather than “some incidental or collateral matter”
• detective’s statements pre- sumed there would be a prosecution and pertained to effect of the defendant’s conduct on that prosecution rather than suggesting that no prosecution would be commenced if the defendant made an admission
• “[I]f defense coun- sel invites the factfinder to consider nonadmitted evidence as undermining the state’s case, the prosecutor is entitled to respond, again, so long as that response comports with the proper allocation of the burden of proof.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).