California, United States of America
The following excerpt is from The People v. Flores, B211207, No. BA272661 (Cal. App. 2010):
well as its standard instruction that comments by the attorneys are not evidence, no reasonable likelihood exists that the jury applied those comments in an objectionable fashion. (See People v. Morales, supra, 25 Cal.4th at p. 44 [when a claim of prosecutorial misconduct relates to comments made before the jury, "the question is whether there is a reasonable likelihood that the jury construed or applied any of the complained-of remarks in an objectionable fashion"].)
d. Denigrating defense counsel
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