Is there any case law in which a prosecution characterized an attorney's closing argument as "highly inflammatory and improper in many respects"?
California, United States of America
The following excerpt is from People v. Sandoval, B294737 (Cal. App. 2020):
5. Defendant appears to analogize this remark by the prosecution here to a Court of Appeal case that characterized an attorney's closing argument as "highly inflammatory and improper in many respects," that is, one that appealed to the passion or prejudice of the jury, asked for a guilty verdict based on sympathy for the deceased, and vilified counsel and witnesses. (People v. Talle (1952) 111 Cal.App.2d 650, 676.) The comparison is obviously inapt.
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