A comprehensive, unambiguous, and prompt direction to the jury to disregard a non-responsive, prejudicial answer given in cross-examination can adequately counteract the prejudice, particularly where the complainant did not herself give the impugned evidence, the direction was given before further evidence was heard, and no further reference to the answer was made during the trial. The appellate court need not resolve the admissibility of the impugned evidence if the direction adequately cured the prejudice.
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