United States v. John A. Gambone, Sr. A/K/A Jack John A. Gambone, Sr., United States of America v. Anthony Gambone A/K/A Tony Anthony Gambone

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• finding that because the weight of the evidence against the defendant was strong, any error resulting from the prosecutor’s improper statements was harmless
• noting that “the prosecutor’s objectionable comment amounted to less than half of a page out of over 3200 pages of trial transcript” and “represented only a fleeting moment in a four-week trial”
• reaffirming prior holdings “that probative evidence on the same issue as improper remarks may mitigate prejudice stemming from those remarks”
• finding no prejudice where comments took up less than half a page out of 3200 pages of trial transcript
• noting that prosecutorial misconduct must result in prejudice to defendant to be reversible
• “[D]efense counsel did nothing improper by pointing out that the government did not prove every fact alleged in the indictment or raised in opening statements.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).