In what circumstances will a jury find that a prosecutor's impropriety was not an inducing factor in the election of a jury to find a defendant sane?
California, United States of America
The following excerpt is from People v. Babbitt, 248 Cal.Rptr. 69, 45 Cal.3d 660, 755 P.2d 253 (Cal. 1988):
In light of these factors, we conclude that there is no "reasonable probability that the prosecutor's impropriety supplied an inducing factor in the jury's election to find defendant sane." ( People v. Smith, supra, 33 Cal.App.3d at p. 75, 108 Cal.Rptr. 698.)
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