State v. Rosas-Hernandez

How courts have described this case

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• stating that a defendant who pleaded guilty “retained the right not to incriminate himself during the ... period in which a timely initial petition for post-conviction relief may be filed”
• finding that a prosecutor did not engage in vouching because his comments were directed at the non- evidentiary statement of opposing counsel, not a witness’s testimony, and the prosecutor did not suggest that he had outside knowledge
• “The failure to give an instruction is not reversible error unless it is prejudicial to the defendant and the prejudice appears in the record.”
• trial court’s failure to give instruction not reversible error unless defendant prejudiced
• jury instructions must not mislead the jury

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).