Jackson v. State
In the defendant's trial for interference with an emergency telephone
call, he was not entitled to a mistrial when his former girlfriend made
reference during her testimony to the defendant's two previous
incarcerations. The disclosures of the defendant's two previous incarcerations were
not calculated to inflame the minds of the jury, nor were they so
damaging as to make it impossible to remove the harmful impression from
the jurors' minds. In the first case, the trial court's instruction
directing the jury to disregard the references adequately addressed the
defendant's objection. In the second, the judge gave an appropriate
curative instruction in response to the defendant's second objection.
