California, United States of America
The following excerpt is from People v. Rubio, A152661 (Cal. App. 2018):
3. Furthermore, the court instructed the jury that counsel's arguments were not evidence and that it should not let sympathy influence its decision. We generally assume the jury followed the court's instructions, and nothing in the prosecutor's conduct suggests we should not make that assumption here. (See People v. Centeno (2014) 60 Cal.4th 659, 676.)
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