Opinion ID: 2543191
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Heading: Prosecutorial Misconduct in Presenting Time and Place of Previous Burglaries

Text: As discussed in part 7, we reject defendant's contention that there was prejudicial error in disclosing the location of the Johnson and Glass burglaries. Defendant also claims prosecutorial misconduct in such disclosure, in violation of his rights under the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments. We reject that claim as well. As explained above, the exclusion of the location of the burglaries was based on the trial court's initially erroneous belief that such burglaries were only admissible as prior convictions under section 190.3, factor (c), rather than under factor (a). In any case the mention of these locational facts to the jury was not prejudicial under any applicable standard. We come to the same conclusion with regard to the prosecutor's statement that defendant took long walks to case the houses in which the burglaries took place.