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042209P.pdf   01/06/2005  USA  v.  Jose Meza-Gonzalez
   U.S. Court of Appeals Case No:  04-2209
   Southern District of Iowa   
   Criminal Case - conviction. Convictions for conspiracy to distribute 
   and attempt to possess methamphetamine are affirmed. District court did 
   not err in denying suppression motion as district court did not clearly err 
   in finding defendant's common law wife voluntarily consented to search 
   the resident after reviewing totality of circumstances and according strong 
   weight to district court's credibility determinations. Government's strike 
   of sole minority on jury panel was based on her social work type- 
   employment and long fingernails demonstrating her liberal nature; district 
   court did not clearly err in finding no purposeful racial discrimination. 
   [PUBLISHED] [Murphy, Author, with Hansen and Melloy, Circuit 
   Judges]