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034005P.pdf   07/05/2005  United States  v.  William Monnier
   U.S. Court of Appeals Case No:  03-4005
   District of Nebraska   
   [PUBLISHED] [Wollman, Author, with Loken, Chief Judge, and 
   Beam, Circuit Judge] 
   Criminal case - criminal law. Evidence was sufficient to support 
   convictions for conspiracy and distribution of methamphetamine resulting 
   in death; district court did not abuse its discretion by refusing to declare 
   a mistrial after a witness was sworn and refused to testify as defendant 
   was not entitled to force the witness to take the Fifth in front of the jury; 
   applying Pirani's plain error analysis, defendant was not entitled to 
   Booker relief as he could not demonstrate a reasonable probability that 
   the district court would have imposed a lesser sentence under an advisory 
   guidelines scheme.