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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.