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033972P.pdf   06/21/2005  USA  v.  Sharon Marie Wheeler
   U.S. Court of Appeals Case No:  03-3972
   Western District of Missouri   
   [PUBLISHED] [M. Arnold, Author, with Bright and Fagg, Circuit 
   Judges] 
   Criminal case - Sentencing Guidelines. Statement of ground for upward 
   departure was sufficiently detailed to permit adequate appellate review; 
   evidence was sufficient to support departure under Guidelines Sec. 
   2B1.1, comment. (n.15(A)(v)) (2002), where defendant embezzled one- 
   third of the company's funds and forced it to the verge of bankruptcy; 
   applying Pirani 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.