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042028P.pdf 07/20/2005 United States v. Arlene Marie Frokjer
U.S. Court of Appeals Case No: 04-2028
District of Minnesota
[PUBLISHED] Colloton, Author, with Wollman and Lay, Circuit
Judges]
Criminal case - criminal law. Evidence was sufficient to support
convictions for making false statements to obtain workers' compensation;
where the district court did not rule on defendant's motion in limine to
exclude a surveillance videotape, her failure to object to its admission at
trial constituted a waiver of the issue, and the claim can only be reviewed
for plain error; admission of the tape, which contained a composite of
surveillance video and defendant's recorded statements claiming
disability, was not plain error; prosecutor's statements characterizing
defendant's testimony were not improper; district court's discretionary
refusal to grant a downward departure is unreviewable; applying Pirani's
plain error analysis, defendant was not entitled to Booker relief as she
failed to demonstrate a reasonable probability that the district court would
have imposed a lesser sentence under an advisory guidelines scheme; 15-
month sentence was not unreasonable with regard to the factors set out in
18 U.S.C. Sec. 3553(a).