Opinion ID: 399380
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Heading Rank: 2

Heading: issues

Text: 6 This case presents ten issues: (1) whether the district court improperly required the simultaneous exercise of peremptory challenges to the jury, (2) whether the district court properly admitted the statements of each defendant against the other defendant, as statements by a co-conspirator, (3) whether certain statements by a Deltron salesman were properly admitted, (4) whether the district court improperly admitted evidence of Tietjen's association with a company evidently similar to Deltron, (5) whether the district court improperly restricted Tietjen's cross-examination of a federal agent, (6) whether the government adequately demonstrated that certain interstate telephone calls and interstate travel occurred, (7) whether some of the government's statements in closing argument were overly inflammatory, (8) whether Tietjen's closing argument to the jury was overly curtailed, (9) whether the district court should have stricken the government's position statement on sentencing, and (10) whether the district court improperly pressured the defendants to admit their guilt and then imposed a harsher sentence for their failure to do so.