121236P.pdf   01/07/2013  United States  v.  Joseph Brown, Jr.
   U.S. Court of Appeals Case No:  12-1236
   U.S. District Court for the District of North Dakota - Fargo   
   [PUBLISHED] [Shepherd, Author, with Murphy and Bye, Circuit Judges]
   Criminal case - Criminal law. Evidence was sufficient to support
   defendant's conviction for attempted aggravated sexual abuse;
   prosecutor's comments that a tiger does not change his stripes or a
   leopard his spots, did not require a mistrial, as it was not improper for the
   government to suggest that defendant's prior sexual assaults shed light on
   his modus operandi; even if the comment was improper, it did not
   deprive defendant of a fair trial given the evidence in the case and the
   court's issuance of a curative instruction that the jury could not convict a
   defendant solely because he had committed a similar act in the past.