192304P.pdf   08/14/2020  United States  v.  Marlon Iron Crow
   U.S. Court of Appeals Case No:  19-2304
   U.S. District Court for the District of South Dakota - Rapid City   
   [PUBLISHED] Erickson, Author, with Kelly and Stras, Circuit Judges] 
   Criminal case - Criminal law and sentencing. Batson claim rejected; the 
   district court properly handled defendant's claim the government 
   intimidated a witness by allowing each side an opportunity to explore the 
   circumstances of the pre-trial investigation; claim the government 
   solicited false testimony rejected; claim the government made improper 
   comments about mens rea and asked leading questions rejected as the 
   district court as the court addressed the issue by sustaining objections 
   and giving a forceful curative instruction; in any event, defendant failed 
   to show how the government's actions made his trial fundamentally unfair; 
   evidence was sufficient to support defendant's conviction for 
   second-degree murder; defendant's within-guidelines range sentence was 
   substantively reasonable.