State v. Muniz

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• considering the “emotionally fraught” nature of the case in evaluating whether curative instruction would have been sufficient to remedy prejudice
• considering the “emotionally fraught” nature of the case in evaluating whether curative instruction would have been sufficient to remedy prejudice
• the prosecutor’s improper appeal to the jurors’ emotions during rebuttal closing argument in an “emotion- ally fraught case” was incurable
• “[I]t was improper for the prosecutor to interject his 794 State v. Kurz personal opinion regarding defendant’s conduct * * *.”
• “[I]t was improper for the prosecutor to interject his personal opinion regarding defendant’s conduct * * *.”
• acknowl- edging that there are some cases where statements are so prejudicial that, “as a practical matter, the bell once rung, cannot be unrung” by a curative instruction (internal quota- tion marks omitted)

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

7 cases in this archive cite this case.

• State v. Arena
  Court of Appeals of Oregon· 2024-11-20· cited 12×
• State v. Settlemier
  Court of Appeals of Oregon· 2024-06-12· cited 5×
• State v. Bonczkowski
  Court of Appeals of Oregon· 2025-02-12· cited 5×
• State v. Kurz
  Court of Appeals of Oregon· 2025-08-20· cited 5×
• State v. Clark
  Court of Appeals of Oregon· 2025-06-04· cited 2×
• State v. Mosqueda-Rivera-Burdette
  Court of Appeals of Oregon· 2025-10-15· cited 2×
• State v. Bahr
  Court of Appeals of Oregon· 2026-05-13

Cites

11 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Michelson v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1949-02-14· cited 1,808×
• State v. Chitwood
  Oregon Supreme Court· 2022-10-20· cited 196×
• State v. Durant
  Court of Appeals of Oregon· 2023-08-09· cited 85×
• State v. Skillicorn
  Oregon Supreme Court· 2021-01-14· cited 67×
• State v. Purrier
  Court of Appeals of Oregon· 2014-09-24· cited 37×
• State v. Lundbom
  Court of Appeals of Oregon· 1989-05-10· cited 31×
• United States v. Roman
  Seventh Circuit· 2007-06-28· cited 25×
• State v. Montgomery
  Court of Appeals of Oregon· 2023-08-30· cited 24×
• State v. Brunnemer
  Court of Appeals of Oregon· 2017-08-02· cited 17×
• State Highway Commission v. Callahan
  Oregon Supreme Court· 1966-02-09· cited 15×
• State v. Schneider
  Court of Appeals of Oregon· 2023-10-18· cited 7×