California Court of Appeal

Prosecutor's comments did not amount to attempts to use defendant's failure to testify against him where 1) they could be construed as comments on the state of the evidence, and 2) the prejudicial effect of one such comment was negated by an instruction that the jury draw no inference of guilt from same.

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• Decided 04/24/2002
• Published 04/25/2002

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• California Court of Appeal

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