United States v. Cesar Sevilla-Acosta

How courts have described this case

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• finding appropriate the government’s comments about a cooperating witness’s benefits and motivation for testifying truthfully, characterizing them as arguing credibility and not crossing the line into vouching for credibility
• declining to reverse motion for mistrial in light of trial judge’s curative instructions
• considering whether district court provided instructions to cure any prejudicial effect
• “[T]he court’s ruling [on the co-conspirator hearsay exception] in the jury’s presence was error.”
• curative instructions were sufficient to “purge any prejudicial effect” of the court’s statements

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).