UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Maria Leticia Ruiz DE CRUZ, Defendant-Appellant

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• holding that “[a] district court’s decision to preclude a mistake of law defense is reviewed de novo.”
• holding that prosecutor’s statement that crime “shouldn’t go on” was “simply a way of saying that defendant had engaged in criminal conduct and should not be permitted to continue that criminal conduct”
• holding that a defendant was not prejudiced by a Rule 16 violation when the defendant could not explain how timely disclosure would have changed the defense’s tactics or strategy
• holding that the prosecutor’s allegedly improper comments were harmless because, among other reasons, “the fact that the jury acquitted defendant of one of the charges against her indicates that the jury was able to weigh the evidence without prejudice.”
• concluding no error where prosecution's statements were simply a way of saying that defendant had engaged in criminal conduct and should not be permitted to continue that criminal conduct
• rejecting appeal based on alleged prosecutorial misconduct in part because the “the fact that the jury acquitted defendant on one of the charges against her indicates that the jury was able to weigh the evidence without prejudice”

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