United States v. Antonio L. Venable

Opinion for the Court filed by Circuit Judge GARLAND.

GARLAND, Circuit Judge:

A jury found Antonio Venable guilty of one count of unlawful possession of a firearm by a convicted felon, in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1). Venable challenges his conviction on the ground that, during closing argument, the prosecutor improperly suggested that the jury could acquit Vena-ble only if it disbelieved three government witnesses. Because defense counsel did not object to the prosecutor’s statement, and because the statement did not rise to the level of reversible error under Federal Rule of Criminal…