The People v. Bernette

How courts have described this case

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• common knowledge that death is not the only penalty for - 10 - 1-19-0252 murder
• evidence regarding the victim or her family improper because it bears no relationship to guilt or innocence or the appropriate punishment
• prosecutor's comments during closing argument about a murder's impact on the victim's family were irrelevant and highly prejudicial
• irrelevant and prejudicial references to a murder victim's family throughout the proceedings are fatal to a fair trial

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).