Supreme Court of Colorado· 6/28/2010

Wend v. People

Citations

235 P.3d 1089
2010 WL 2563469

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holding that improper statements made by a prosecutor, regardless of intent, can affect the jury’s impartiality, thus corrupting the fundamental fairness of the trial
to determine whether reversal is required, courts consider, among other things, the \strength of the other evidence of guilt\
“[O]nly errors that specifically and directly offend a defendant’s constitutional rights are ‘constitutional’ in nature.”
if conduct was improper, we decide whether it requires reversal under the appropriate standard of review
repeating improper statement in closing compounded its prejudicial effect
refusing to impose constitutional harmless error standard 24 broadly

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Judges: Rice, Eid, Coats

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