United States v. Oscar Smith, Regina Smith and Gary King, Julia Thom

How courts have described this case

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• recognizing that the prosecutor is entitled to respond to characterizations from defense counsel
• holding that “a drug courier is not necessarily a minor or minimal participant” under section 3B1.2
• recognizing the preference for persons who are charged together to be tried together, “particularly in conspiracy cases”
• stating that “[b]ecause statements and arguments of counsel are not evidence, improper statements can be rectified by the district court’s instruction to the jury that only the evidence in the case be considered”
• \[A] drug courier is not necessarily a minor or minimal participant within the meaning of the Sentencing Guidelines.\
• “[A] drug courier is not necessarily a minor or minimal participant within the meaning of the Sentencing Guidelines.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).