How have courts dealt with error at trial where a prosecutor made an error in making an improper remark to a defendant?
California, United States of America
The following excerpt is from People v. Crandell, 251 Cal.Rptr. 227, 46 Cal.3d 833, 760 P.2d 423 (Cal. 1988):
14 This contention might be rejected on the alternative basis that defendant's failure to make a timely and proper objection to the prosecutor's remark waived any error. (See People v. Murtishaw (1981) 29 Cal.3d 733, 756-759, 175 Cal.Rptr. 738, 631 P.2d 446.)
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