Is there any case law where a defendant was convicted of a charge of sexual assault because of the improper use of racial slurs?
MultiRegion, United States of America
The following excerpt is from Rowland v. Chappell, 876 F.3d 1174 (9th Cir. 2017):
"so infected the trial with unfairness as to make the resulting conviction a denial of due process." Darden v. Wainwright , 477 U.S. 168, 181, 106 S.Ct. 2464, 91 L.Ed.2d 144 (1986) (citation omitted). "[I]t is not enough that the prosecutors' remarks were undesirable or even universally condemned." Id . (internal quotation marks and citation omitted).
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