Supreme Court of Kansas· 7/30/2010

State v. Martinez

Citations

236 P.3d 481
290 Kan. 992
2010 Kan. LEXIS 553

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concluding that the combination of two unrelated harmless errors was not so prejudicial as to deny the defendant a fair trial
finding let the victim know \she did the right thing\ by reporting the crime improper
“There is no question the prosecutor’s closing remark injects irrelevant decision-making into the juiy process.”
two trial errors were harmless, unrelated, and were not, in combination, so prejudicial as to deny the defendant a fair trial
“[let the victim] know ‘she did the right thing’ [by reporting the crime]” improper
prosecutor improperly asked jury to return guilty verdict in order to send message to child rape victim that she did right thing by reporting crime

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Judges: Biles, Johnson

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