United States v. Tom Crutchfield, Penny Crutchfield

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• reversing conviction on grounds of prosecutorial misconduct where “[t]he prejudicial effect of [the] misconduct cannot be disputed, as this case turned largely on the jury’s credibility determinations of the several witnesses who testified”
• finding prosecutorial misconduct in repeated violation of Federal Rules of Evidence 404, 608, and 609, where such violations “continued even after the court instructed the prosecutor as to their impropriety”
• finding prosecutorial misconduct in repeated violation of Federal Rules of Evidence 404, 608, and 609, where such violations \continued even after the court instructed the prosecutor as to their impropriety\
• finding prosecutorial misconduct in repeated violation of Federal Rules of Evidence 404, 608, and 609, where such violations “continued even after the court instructed the prosecutor as to their impropriety”
• affirming grant of summary judgment on claims that 27 county could be liable for warrantless removal of minor child from the home where there 28 was no evidence of a policy or practice under Monell
• reversing conviction based, in part, on improper impeachment of defense witness

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