Is there any case law where a defendant has been found to have improperly used a judge's comments in a federal civil case to justify a finding of not guilty?
California, United States of America
The following excerpt is from People v. Seumanu, 192 Cal.Rptr.3d 195, 355 P.3d 384, 61 Cal.4th 1293 (Cal. 2015):
Finally, defendant's attempt to inflate the trial court's pretrial comments into judicial error that both violated his federal constitutional rights and is reversible per se as structural error (see Sullivan v. Louisiana (1993) 508 U.S. 275, 279280, 113 S.Ct. 2078, 124 L.Ed.2d 182 [erroneous reasonable doubt instruction requires reversal] ) is baseless. As noted, the jury was properly
[61 Cal.4th 1359]
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