Sangster v. Dujinski

How courts have described this case

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• reversing denial of motion for new trial, concluding that “[u]nder the extreme circumstances of this case,” the 15 trial court should have granted a mistrial; plaintiff’s counsel repeatedly referred to forbidden matters throughout opening statements, the trial, and closing arguments
• plaintiff’s attorney improperly claimed that defendant’s wife had battered wife syndrome and repeatedly discussed facts not in evidence concerning defendant’s prior criminal matters
• in personal injury action attorney improperly claimed that defendant’s wife had “battered wife syndrome” and discussed defendant’s prior criminal matters
• plaintiffs verdict reversed where throughout trial plaintiffs counsel had persistently argued facts not in evidence and repeatedly referred to matters forbidden by court order concerning defendant’s conduct on earlier unrelated occasions
• trial court neither rebuked counsel nor issued a curative instruction
• argument of counsel is not evidence

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).