California, United States of America
The following excerpt is from People v. Red, E056593 (Cal. App. 2014):
"'"[A] defendant may not complain on appeal of prosecutorial misconduct unless in a timely fashionand on the same groundthe defendant made an assignment of misconduct and requested that the jury be admonished to disregard the impropriety." [Citation.]' [Citation.]" (People v. Dykes (2009) 46 Cal.4th 731, 760.) Since defendant did not object to the punishment comments at the trial court on the ground of prosecutorial misconduct, we conclude the matter has been forfeited for appeal.
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