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151738P.pdf   08/12/2016  United States  v.  Gordon Lasley, Jr.
   U.S. Court of Appeals Case No:  15-1738
   U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Iowa - Cedar Rapids   
   [PUBLISHED] [Loken, Author, with Wollman and Bright, Circuit Judges] 
   Criminal case - Criminal law and sentencing. The district court did not 
   abuse its discretion by refusing to give defendant's requested instruction 
   on the crime of involuntary manslaughter as a rational jury could not, 
   based on the evidence in the case, acquit defendant of first- and 
   second-degree murder and convict him of involuntary manslaughter; 
   defendant's within-guidelines sentence of consecutive life sentences, 
   while admittedly harsh, was not substantively unreasonable. Judge Bright 
   dissenting.