OPINION
DITTER, District Judge.
Defendant, Edward G. Venable, was convicted by a jury of two counts of making false statements to a grand jury and acquitted on three counts of extortion. However, I granted defendant's motion for a new trial because the prosecutor had improperly commented upon Venable's failure to testify, thus violating his Fifth Amendment privilege against self-incrimination.
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