A prosecutor's closing address may capture the effect of evidence using words not actually spoken by witnesses, draw inferences from CCTV footage, and make measured comments about the credibility of the accused's account, without those matters needing to have been specifically put to the accused in cross-examination, provided the matters fall within the scope of the Crown case as put to the accused. A forensic choice by defence counsel not to object to the prosecutor's address at trial cannot be revisited on appeal.
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