Opinion ID: 2594480
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Heading Rank: 13

Heading: Combined effect of instructions

Text: Based on combinations of several of the asserted instructional errors, defendant speculates about the various flawed legal conclusions the jury may have drawn. As stated, however, we find no instructional error, and therefore this speculation is baseless. 8. Prosecutor Did Not Commit Prejudicial Misconduct and/or Defendant Forfeited Misconduct Claims. Defendant asserts several instances of prosecutorial misconduct. The applicable federal and state standards regarding prosecutorial misconduct are well established. `A prosecutor's ... intemperate behavior violates the federal Constitution when it comprises a pattern of conduct so `egregious that it infects the trial with such unfairness as to make the conviction a denial of due process.'' [Citations.] Conduct by a prosecutor that does not render a criminal trial fundamentally unfair is prosecutorial misconduct under state law only if it involves ``the use of deceptive or reprehensible methods to attempt to persuade either the court or the jury.'' ( People v. Samayoa (1997) 15 Cal.4th 795, 841, 64 Cal.Rptr.2d 400, 938 P.2d 2.)