STEVEN VAN MCHONE, — v. MARVIN POLK, WARDEN, CENTRAL PRISON, RALEIGH, NORTH CAROLINA, —

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• holding there is no prejudice from prosecutor’s misstatement of the law when the trial judge properly instructs the jury
• “[T]he trial court’s clear, particularized, correct instruction followed almost immediately upon the prosecutor’s closing statement.”
• prosecutor made incorrect statements of law which “could have led a rational jury to believe that defendant bore the burden of persuading the jury that he was so intoxicated as to be unable to form a deliberate and premeditated intent to kill”

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