What is the test for whether a prosecutor's conduct denies the right to a fair trial?
California, United States of America
The following excerpt is from People v. Galvan, F068752 (Cal. App. 2016):
The Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution is violated when a prosecutor's conduct denies the right to a fair trial. (People v. Linton (2013) 56 Cal.4th 1146, 1205.) If the prosecutor's conduct does not create a fundamentally unfair trial,
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