221558P.pdf   04/04/2023  United States  v.  Christopher Truax
   U.S. Court of Appeals Case No:  22-1558
   U.S. District Court for the District of South Dakota - Western   
   [PUBLISHED] [Erickson, Author, with Loken and Kobes, Circuit Judges] 
   Criminal case - Criminal law and Sentencing. The district court did not 
   err in permitting the government to cross-examine defendant about a book 
   he had read prior to his testimony which presented advice to defendants on 
   how to conduct themselves during their testimony; even if the evidence 
   should have been excluded, any error in admitting it was harmless as there 
   was abundant evidence establishing the elements of the offense without the 
   evidence about the book; even assuming the prosecutor's arguments during 
   rebuttal that defendant had put on a show using theatrics were improper, 
   there was no reasonable probability defendant would have been acquitted 
   without the statements; defendant's within-guidelines sentence was not 
   substantively unreasonable.