Crutchfield v. United States

NEBEKER, Senior Judge:

This is an appeal from convictions of all twenty-seven counts of an indictment arising from a drug-related triple murder and a subsequent murder of a potential prosecution witness. 1 Appellant Darryl D. Crutchfield raises twenty-six issues. 2 Some amount to attacks on all convictions — challenges to the trial court’s admission of out-of-court statements made by appellant’s girlfriend before he slew her, limitations on cross-examination of a government witness, and three aspects of the prosecution’s closing argument. Others challenge specific convictions on various…