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041010P.pdf   06/13/2005  USA  v.  David Staples
   U.S. Court of Appeals Case No:  04-1010
   Eastern District of Missouri   
[PUBLISHED] [M. Arnold, Author, with Bright and Fagg, Circuit Judges] Criminal case - criminal law. Claim that identification procedures were unduly suggestive and created a substantial likelihood of irreparable misidentification rejected; trial attorney's decision not to call two witnesses, who were likely to be seriously impeached, was a reasonable trial strategy and did not constitute ineffective assistance of counsel; in sentencing defendant for his participation in a fraud scheme, the district court should have considered the value of the collateral in determining the amount of the intended loss; here, the intended loss was smaller than the actual loss, and the actual loss should be used to calculate the sentencing range; since the court cannot conclude, based on this record, whether the miscalculation of the loss affected the trial court's sentence determinations, the matter is remanded for further proceedings.