State v. Baumruk

How courts have described this case

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• reviewing a closing argument for plain error and finding that “ ‘send a message’ arguments are permissible.”
• plain error requires a showing of “evident, obvious, and clear” error and also that manifest injustice or a miscarriage of justice resulted from the error
• \Issues that were not preserved may be reviewed for plain error only....\
• “The rule requiring contemporaneous objections to the qualifications of jurors is well founded. It serves to minimize the incentive to sandbag in the hope of acquittal, and, if unsuccessful, mount a post-conviction attack on the jury selection process.”
• \[A]mnesia does not bar prosecution of an otherwise competent defendant. . . . A lack of memory of the events surrounding the commission of a crime does not make an individual incompetent to stand trial for the crime.\
• “[A]mnesia does not bar prosecution of an otherwise competent defendant. . . . A lack of memory of the events surrounding the commission of a crime does not make an individual incompetent to stand trial for the crime.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).