United States v. Roquel Allen Carter

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• holding that general instruction given at the end of trial, rather than when comments were made, did not cure misconduct
• holding that general instruction given at the end of trial, rather than when comments were made, did not cure misconduct
• holding that general instruction given at the end of trial, rather than when comments were made, did not cure misconduct
• finding that prejudice caused by a prosecutor’s improper remark may be cured by a cautionary instruction from the court
• finding that “measures more substantial than a general instruction that ‘objections or arguments made by the lawyers are not evidence in the case’ were needed to cure the prejudicial effect of the prosecutor’s comments during closing argument”
• finding that a general curative instruction that “arguments made by the lawyers are not evidence” failed to cure prejudice because it was a routine instruction given after closings and a recess and did not address the prosecutor’s statements

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