What is the test for determining whether a prosecutor's comments at trial infected the trial with unfairness?
MultiRegion, United States of America
The following excerpt is from Williams v. Borg, 139 F.3d 737 (9th Cir. 1998):
"The relevant question is whether the prosecutor's comments so infected the trial with unfairness as to make the resulting conviction a denial of due process." Darden v. Wainwright, 477 U.S. 168, 181, 106 S.Ct. 2464, 2471, 91 L.Ed.2d 144 (1986). They did not.
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