182958P.pdf   01/08/2020  United States  v.  Antonio Outlaw
   U.S. Court of Appeals Case No:  18-2958
   U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Iowa - Cedar Rapids   
   [PUBLISHED] [Colloton, Author, with Loken and Kobes, Circuit Judges] 
   Criminal Case Criminal Law and Sentence. Outlaw pleaded guilty to 
   distributing heroin and a jury convicted him of conspiring to distribute 
   heroin and aiding and abetting. On appeal, Outlaw challenges the 
   sufficiency of the evidence to support the jury verdicts. Ample evidence 
   was presented that Outlaw knowingly and intentionally joined a conspiracy 
   to distribute heroin; based on the evidence supporting aiding and abetting 
   charge, a jury reasonably could have inferred that Outlaw knew in advance 
   that he was driving to a drug transaction and intentionally facilitated 
   his associate's transfer of heroin. The district court did not clearly err 
   in applying the four-level increase for an aggravating role in the offense 
   under Guidelines sec. 3B1.1(a), or the two-level increase for obstruction 
   of justice under Guidlines sec. 3C1.1, as there was sufficient evidence to 
   support the court's finding. The sentence within the advisory range was 
   reasonable.