United States v. Balsam

How courts have described this case

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• explaining that the government is usually entitled to present \evidence creating a coherent narrative of [the defendant's] thoughts and actions in perpetrating the offense for which he is being tried\ (quoting Old Chief, 519 U.S. at 192)
• condemning a prosecutor’s reliance on facts outside the record to support a prosecution witness
• courtroom seating arrangement did 78 not “undercut the presumption of innocence” even though “the jury may have inferred from the isolated grouping of the defendants that they must be coconspirators, as charged”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).