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041598P.pdf   07/13/2005  USA  v.  Carl Whipple
   U.S. Court of Appeals Case No:  04-1598
                          and No:  04-1750
   Eastern District of Missouri   
   [PUBLISHED] [M. Arnold, Author, with Bowman and Riley, Circuit 
   Judges] 
   Criminal case - criminal law. Evidence was sufficient to support 
   conspiracy conviction; applying Pirani's plain error analysis, defendant 
   was entitled to Booker relief as it was clear the district court believed its 
   hands were tied by the mandatory guidelines scheme, and that it would 
   have imposed a lesser sentence under an advisory guidelines scheme.