United States v. Laurel Joan Morris

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• holding that prosecutor’s statements “must be regarded as harmless if, upon examination of the entire record, substantial prejudice to the defendant does not appear”
• stating that prosecutor generally may not \inject into his argument any extrinsic or prejudicial matter that has no basis in the evidence\
• During closing argument, an attorney has a \right to state his contention as to the conclusions that the -20- jury should draw from the evidence.\
• finding no substantial prejudice where the prosecutor asserted that government agents were unbiased and the trial judge immediately told the jury that the summation was not evidence
• “[A]n attorney properly may state, T believe that the evidence has shown the defendant’s guilt[.]’ ”
• “This Court has repeatedly held . . . that an attorney may not say anything to the jury implying that evidence supporting the attorney's position exists but has not been introduced in the trial.”

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