California, United States of America
The following excerpt is from People v. Ramirez, C069700 (Cal. App. 2016):
Moreover, the record indicates the prosecutor's misstatements were made while the correct statement of the law of provocation was displayed for the jury. At oral argument, the parties did not disagree the trial court's reference to "what is on the screen is taken from the jury instruction with regard to Element Number Three" of voluntary manslaughter displayed the correct statement of law for the jury. Thus, the trial court's reference to the screen indicates the misstatements were cured as soon as they were committed. As we have already noted, we presume the jury understood and followed the trial court's instructions. (People v. Williams, supra, 170 Cal.App.4th at p. 635.) Nothing in the record undermines this presumption that jurors properly heeded the court's instruction displayed for them on the screen during the prosecutor's misstatement of the law regarding provocation and reiterated by the trial court's instructions.
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