Opinion ID: 2511701
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Heading: Standard of Review and Cumulative Error

Text: [¶ 40] As previously stated, the applicable standard of review is plain error. With respect to assignments of cumulative error, we have said: The purpose of evaluating for cumulative error is to address whether the cumulative effect of two or more individually harmless errors has the potential to prejudice the defendant to the same extent as a single reversible error. Guy v. State, 2008 WY 56, ¶ 45, 184 P.3d 687, 701 (Wyo.2008) (quotation marks omitted). When making this evaluation, we consider only matters that were determined to be errors, and not any matter assigned as error but determined not to be erroneous. Id.; Eaton v. State, 2008 WY 97, ¶ 105, 192 P.3d 36, 79 (Wyo.2008).