In a civil case, in what circumstances will a prosecutor give counsel an instruction correcting the prosecutor's misstatement of the law?
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The following excerpt is from U.S. v. Lee, 1 F.3d 1247 (9th Cir. 1993):
This instruction corrected the prosecutor's misstatement of the law. See United States v. Guess, 745 F.2d 1286, 1288 (9th Cir.1984) (improprieties in counsel's arguments to the jury do not constitute reversible error unless they are so gross as probably to prejudice the defendant, and the prejudice has not been neutralized by the trial judge) (internal citations omitted), cert. denied, 469 U.S. 1225 (1985).
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