What is the limitation on argument by the defense in the closing argument?

California, United States of America

The following excerpt is from People v. Williams, B280187 (Cal. App. 2018):

^18. The trial court's limitation on argument by the defense was within appropriate bounds. A trial court can, of course, sustain an objection during closing argument that an attorney has misstated the evidence. (People v. Ponce (1996) 44 Cal.App.4th 1380, 1390 ["Trial judges have the duty to responsibly and fairly control the proceedings to prohibit argument which is not supported by substantial evidence"].) That the court made the equivalent of such a ruling in advance here is immaterial.

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