083683P.pdf   12/30/2009  United States  v.  Jason Branch, Sr.
   U.S. Court of Appeals Case No:  08-3683
   U.S. District Court for the Western District of Missouri - Kansas City   
   [PUBLISHED] [Smith, Author, with Arnold and Bye, Circuit Judges]
   Criminal case - criminal law and sentencing. District court did not err
   in denying defendant's request for a mistrial after a government witness
   stated "how dare you" to defendant as the court gave the jury instructions
   to disregard the comment, there was no showing of bad faith on the
   government's part and the remark was an isolated incident in a long trial
   which overwhelmingly established defendant's guilt; prosecutor's
   comments about defendant as a "fraudster" and claiming everything he
   did was a fraud were not improper and did not provide the basis for a
   mistrial; district court did not err in imposing enhancements for the
   amount of the loss, the number of victims or defendant's leadership role
   in the offense; sentence was not unreasonable.