US Attorney Johnny Sutton or his assistant(s) took the illegal drug smugglers side and told a tale they knew to be false, that this was a one time thing, done only to help pay for medical help for his poor mother.
Do you know how such lies, told by a US Attorney sways a jury?
After the trial several jury members stated they didn’t put any weight at all on OAD’s testimony but convivted on the cover up and contradictory testimony of R&C.
Anyway, it was OAD who testified to these facts, not the prosecutors. They may have used these statements in closing arguments but that is their job to sum up testimony and evidence at that time.
It’s not up to the attorneys to make decisions as to the the veracity of statements made at trial, only to present them and let the jury figure out who is lying and not and what weight to put on any single piece of evidence.