231 N.C. App. 433 - State v. Jones’s Empirical Analysis
2013
Citation profile
3
cited by 3 later decisions
2
states following
March 2026
most recently cited
3 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on State v. Odom · State v. Lawrence · State v. Jones · Beals v. United States · Baez v. Breslin
Most-quoted passages
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“The standard of review for assessing alleged improper closing arguments that fail to provoke timely objection from opposing counsel is whether the remarks were so grossly improper that the trial court committed reversible error by failing to intervene ex mero motu. Under this standard, only an extreme impropriety on the part of the prosecutor will compel this Court to hold that the trial judge abused his discretion in not recognizing and correcting ex mero motu an argument that defense counsel apparently did not believe was prejudicial when originally spoken. Defendant must show that the prosecutor's comments so infected the trial with unfairness that they rendered the conviction fundamentally unfair.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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