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):
bride, the wedding party and the victim's family and friends. The prosecutor may have intended to sway the jury to her side as an emotional matter, but her argument was based on the facts of the case, not on her opinion of the defendant as depraved. This was, therefore, not a situation in which the true basis of an objection was unclear until the prosecutor uttered a final clinching comment. As in People v. Modesto, supra, 66 Cal.2d at p. 696, 59 Cal.Rptr. 124, 427 P.2d 788, we conclude a timely objection would have been effective in preventing the harm that could have resulted from the alleged improper argument, and the failure to object thus forfeited the issue for appeal.
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