United States v. Weatherly

How courts have described this case

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• relying on fact that improper statements were brief and isolated in finding they were not prejudicial
• “It is permissible for counsel to argue inferences [which] flow logically and convincingly from the facts in the record.”
• court determines prejudice in the context of vouching comments by looking to, among other things, “the scope of the comments and their relationship to the proceeding”
• “In order for vouching to be improper, the prosecutor’s assurance of a witness’s credibility must be “based on either the prosecutor's personal knowledge, or other information not contained in the record.”
• improper vouching for witness credibility is reviewed for harmless error

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).