What is the test for determining whether comments made by a prosecutor before the jury in a civil case were in the wrong way?
California, United States of America
The following excerpt is from People v. Wilson, D065468 (Cal. App. 2014):
"[W]hen the claim focuses upon comments made by the prosecutor 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." (People v. Samayoa, supra, 15 Cal.4th at p. 841.) Even if an error could not be cured by an
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