Opinion ID: 2799908
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Heading Rank: 5

Heading: Mistrial Due to Cumulative Harm9

Text: Moten further contends that the cumulative effect of all of the alleged errors at trial warranted a mistrial. A new trial is required on the basis of cumulative errors only when “the errors, when combined, so infected the jury’s deliberations that they had a substantial influence on the outcome of the trial.” United States v. Thornton, 1 F.3d 149, 156 (3d Cir. 1993) (internal quotation marks and brackets omitted). At most, only Moten’s claim based on certain statements of the prosecutor has even arguable merit, and we have concluded that any error in that regard was harmless. We remain confident that, to the extent there was error, it did not have a substantial influence on the outcome of trial or render it fundamentally unfair. United States v. Rivera, 900 F.2d 1462, 1477 (10th Cir. 1990) (cumulative effect must render trial fundamentally unfair).