United States v. James William Reed

How courts have described this case

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• concluding that hearsay evidence suggesting 6 that the defendant misrepresented his name and age was harmless “when viewed in the context of the entire trial and the overwhelming evidence of . . . guilt”
• expressing concern about prosecuto-rial arguments that shift the burden of proof
• misconduct for prosecutor to argue that to acquit the defendant the jury had to find the defendant was telling the truth and all the government witnesses were lying because it was a distortion of the government’s burden of proof
• error did not amount to prejudicial error

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).