Sarpy v. ESAD, Inc.

How courts have described this case

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

• harm from improper question on cross-examination was immediately cured when trial court sustained defense counsel’s objection
• ‘‘[a]lthough prosecutors are bound by con- stitutional constraints and the restraints of adversarial propriety, they are not shackled by the chains of inade- quate advocacy’’
• credibility of defendant who testifies subject to scrutiny and close examination
• credibility of defendant who testifies subject to scrutiny and close examination
• ‘‘[w]e have declined . . . to find prejudice in instances in which a defendant can do no more than offer mere conjecture or rank speculation as to the harm flowing from a denial of a continuance’’

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).