Does the absence of objection and defense counsel's failure to strike a prosecutor's inappropriate use of the term "murder" to describe homicides on appeal?
California, United States of America
The following excerpt is from People v. Calderon, B278747 (Cal. App. 2018):
Appellant acknowledges that the absence of objection and defense counsel's failure to request an admonition and to strike the prosecutor's inappropriate use of the term "murder" to describe the homicides ordinarily forfeits such a claim on appeal. (People v. Winbush (2017) 2 Cal.5th 402, 481 [" 'a defendant may not complain on appeal of prosecutorial misconduct unless in a timely fashionand on the same groundthe defendant made an
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