United States v. David Dominic Necoechea

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• holding that vouching consists of “assurances of the witness’s veracity, or suggesting that information not presented to the jury supports the witness’s testimony”
• holding that any error in prosecutor's vouching for truthfulness of witness cured by trial court's instruction to weigh testimony of witness \with greater care\
• holding that the general instruction regarding the need to review cooperator 28 testimony with “greater care” cured any vouching by the prosecutor in opening statement
• concluding that “the failure to object during closing argument and opening statements is within the wide range of permissible professional legal conduct.” (internal quotation marks omitted)
• holding that reversing based on plain error partly depends on the “closeness of the case” when a prosecutor vouches for the truthfulness of a government witness
• finding that “I submit” statements of truthfulness were not vouching but inferences from the record

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