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041293P.pdf   08/23/2005  United States  v.  Ann Ellefson
   U.S. Court of Appeals Case No:  04-1293
   Northern District of Iowa   
   [PUBLISHED] [Gruender, Author, with Colloton and Lay] 
   Criminal case - Criminal case . Evidence was sufficient to support drug 
   convictions; Amendment 640 to the guidelines, which enacted a 
   mitigating-role cap for offenses involving actual controlled substances 
   but not methamphetamine precursors, did not amount to a denial of 
   substantive due process or equal protection; applying Pirani's 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. Judge 
   Lay, concurring.