State v. Paul B.’s Empirical Analysis

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6 state decisions

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1. “Our jurisprudence concerning prosecutorial impropriety during closing argument is well established. [I]n analyzing claims of prosecutorial [impropriety], we engage in a two step analytical process. The two steps are separate and distinct: (1) whether [impropriety] occurred in the first instance; and (2) whether that [impropriety] deprived a defendant of his due process right to a fair trial. Put differently, [impropriety] is [impropriety], regardless of its ultimate effect on the fairness of the trial; whether that [impropriety] caused or contributed to a due process violation is a separate and distinct question .... [W]hen a defendant raises on appeal a claim that improper remarks by the prosecutor deprived the defendant of his constitutional right to a fair trial, the burden is on the defendant to show ... that the remarks were improper ....”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 181 Conn. App. 406 - State v. Artiaco

2. “It is an elementary rule of evidence that an admission of a party may be entered into evidence as an exception to the hearsay rule .... In the criminal context, an admission is the avowal or acknowledgment of a fact or of circumstances from which guilt may be inferred, and only tending to prove the offenses charged, but not amounting to a confession of guilt ....”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 176 Conn. App. 666 - State v. Jeffrey H.

3. “tendency to make the existence of the fact that the defendant engaged in the alleged conduct more probable than it would be without [their] admission.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 176 Conn. App. 666 - State v. Jeffrey H.