United States v. Batista

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• underscoring that “because we presume that a jury follows the instructions of the court, the burden is even higher” for a mistrial where the court “promptly provided the jury with curative instructions”
• “A defendant alleging prosecutorial misconduct ordinarily bears ‘a heavy burden.’” (quoting United States v. Locascio, 6 F.3d 924, 945 (2d Cir. 1993)), cert. denied, 568 U.S. 1196 (2013

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).