West v. Bank of Commerce & Trusts

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• explaining that “cross- admissibility dispels the prejudicial impact of joining all counts in the same trial” because “[t]he jury would have heard the evidence in any event”
• explaining that, “[t]o warrant habeas relief, [the petitioner] must show that the 15 prosecutor’s improper argument ‘had [a] substantial and injurious effect or influence in 16 determining the jury’s verdict.’” (quoting Brecht v. Abrahamson, 507 U.S. 619, 638 (1993
• “[R]eligious arguments have been condemned by virtually every federal and state court to consider their challenge.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).