Steffano James v. Michael Bowersox

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• holding that state prosecutor's reference to petitioner as \slime\ during closing argument did not sink to the level of a due process violation
• no due process violation results from un-objected to closing argument unless the argument was inflammatory and outrageous that any reasonable judge would have sua sponte declared a mistrial
• “habeas relief should only be granted if the prosecutor’s closing argument was so inflammatory and so outrageous that any reasonable judge would have sua sponte granted a mistrial.”

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