The challenged portions of the People's summation do not warrant reversal. The court's curative action obviated any prejudice arising from the prosecutor's summation comments.
Defendant failed to create an adequate record regarding the ethnic makeup of the jury panel. This precludes review of his claim, made before the trial court only after jury selection had been completed, that the prosecutor exercised peremptory challenges to remove the only two African-American...
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