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211299P.pdf 07/13/2022 United States v. Terrell Jason Armstrong
U.S. Court of Appeals Case No: 21-1299
U.S. District Court for the District of North Dakota - Western
[PUBLISHED] [Colloton, Author, with Loken and Shepherd, Circuit Judges]
Criminal case - Criminal law and sentencing. Officer's pre-Miranda
question about defendant's employment was a standard booking question, and
defendant's response was admissible; the district court did not err in
admitting evidence of defendant's 2018 visit to rival drug dealers as it
was relevant to defendant's actions in establishing his drug trafficking
organization; nor did the court commit plain error in admitting evidence
of a 2015 traffic stop as it was not plainly irrelevant to proving the
existence of a later conspiracy and defendant's knowledge and intent to
commit the charged offense; defendant's sentence, a downward variance, was
not substantively unreasonable, and his sentence did not create an
unwarranted disparity with a co-conspirator.