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141770P.pdf   05/28/2015  United States  v.  Mohammed Sharif Alaboudi
   U.S. Court of Appeals Case No:  14-1770
   U.S. District Court for the District of South Dakota - Sioux Falls   
   [PUBLISHED] [Shepherd, Author, with Gruender and Kelly, Circuit Judges] 
   Criminal case - Criminal law and sentencing. Even if the government 
   violated the court's pretrial order on opinion testimony during its 
   questioning of one of defendant's witnesses, defendant was not prejudiced 
   by the questioning or by the prosecutor's brief reference to the testimony 
   in closing argument, especially in light of the government's strong case 
   against him and defendant's failure to request curative action; any 
   violation of the court's pretrial order on victim terminology was 
   harmless; other claims of prosecutorial misconduct concerning closing 
   argument rejected; evidence was sufficient to support defendant's 
   convictions for conspiracy and sex trafficking; Eighth Amendment challenge 
   to life sentences rejected.