Hawaii Supreme Court· 2/6/2014

State v. Basham.

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132 Haw. 97
319 P.3d 1105
2014 WL 502985
2014 Haw. LEXIS 53

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holding that, because the trial court overruled defense counsel's objection to a misstatement of law, it accredited the definitions given by the prosecutor
holding that a prosecutor’s misstatement of the law was not cured where no specific curative instruction was given relating to the misstatement that was given
Impugning credibility because a defendant has a motive to lie “discourage[s] a defendant from exercising [their] constitutional right to testify on [their] own behalf.”
\Closing arguments are not the place to introduce new evidence outside the safeguards of the Hawai#i Rules of Evidence.\
\Closing arguments are not the place to introduce new evidence outside the safeguards of the Hawai#i Rules of Evidence.\
discussing the meaning of “intention of promoting or facilitating the commission of the offense”

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Judges: Acoba, McKENNA, Nakayama, Pollack, Recktenwald

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