Opinion ID: 867480
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Heading: Cumulative Effects of Purported Prosecutorial Misconduct

Text: ¶ 73 Armstrong finally contends that prosecutorial misconduct was so pervasive in this case as to deny him his constitutional rights under the Fifth, Sixth, and Fourteenth Amendments to the United States Constitution and Article 2, Section 24, of the Arizona Constitution. Armstrong cites State v. Hughes, 193 Ariz. 72, 969 P.2d 1184 (1998), to support his contention that repeated acts of prosecutorial misconduct may deny a defendant a fair trial, even though individual incidents of misconduct may not rise to a level requiring mistrial. However, because we find no prosecutorial misconduct, it follows that there can be no cumulative effect of such alleged misconduct.