Is there any case law where a defense counsel objected to only a few of the comments he now challenges?

California, United States of America


The following excerpt is from People v. Ochoa, 121 Cal.App.4th 1551, 18 Cal.Rptr.3d 365 (Cal. App. 2004):

Here, defense counsel objected to only a few of the prosecutor's comments he now challenges, he raised these challenges only at the very end of the prosecutor's argument and, in objecting, he did not assert that the comments amounted to prosecutorial misconduct. Defense counsel's limited objections were not sufficient to preserve the issue of prosecutorial misconduct for appellate review because there is no indication that a prompt admonition would not have cured any harm caused by the challenged comments. (People v. Carter (2003) 30 Cal.4th 1166, 1207, 135 Cal. Rptr.2d 553, 70 P.3d 981.)

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