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023353P.pdf   08/25/2003  USA  v.  Jeffrey Collins
   U.S. Court of Appeals Case No:  02-3353
   District of Nebraska   
   Criminal case - criminal law. Evidence was sufficient to support conviction 
   for conspiracy and drug distribution; no error in calculating the amount of 
   drugs attributable to defendant; Apprendi and Eighth Amendment 
   challenges to life sentence rejected; no error in refusing to grant a 
   mistrial based on violation of sequestration order; district court 
   did not commit plain error in admitting finger print evidence; in 
   absence of a government motion for downward departure, district court 
   correctly determined it did not have authority to depart.