United States v. Jabril Shareef

How courts have described this case

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• holding that prosecutorial misconduct is grounds for reversal “only if it causes the defendant substantial prejudice so infecting the trial with unfairness as to make the resulting conviction a denial of due process.”
• “Remarks of the prosecutor in summation do not amount to a denial of due process unless they constitute ‘egregious misconduct.’” (internal quote omitted)
• “Remarks of the prosecutor in summation do not amount to a denial of due process unless they constitute ‘egregious misconduct.’” (internal quote omitted)
• “Remarks of the prosecutor in summation do not amount to a denial of due process unless they constitute ‘egregious misconduct.’” (citation omitted)
• “[A]lthough . . . [counsel’s] summation [comments] were improper . . . these transgressions were isolated; the trial court upheld [defendant’s] objections[.]”
• “[W]e consider . . . the measures adopted to cure [misconduct].”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).