Opinion ID: 2640657
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Heading: Loss of Carter's job

Text: One of the police investigators testified that, when he and his colleagues went to arrest Carter at his apartment, Mrs. Carter indicated that Carter was at work. In response to a general follow-up question, the officer stated that he checked at Carter's place of employment and learned that Carter had been suspended. A witness's spontaneous or inadvertent references to inadmissible material, not solicited by the prosecution, can be cured by an immediate admonishment directing the jury to disregard the statement. [37] Here, the district court sustained Carter's contemporaneous objection to the evidence and admonished the jury accordingly. We conclude that these measures cured any problem created as a result. Additionally, this claim of error is marginal at best, given that the testimony supported the State's theory, discussed below, that Carter had evaded apprehension by the authorities.