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051745P.pdf   06/15/2006  United States  v.  Reginald Johnson
   U.S. Court of Appeals Case No:  05-1745
                          and No:  05-2975
                          and No:  05-2092
                          and No:  05-2056
   Eastern District of Missouri   
   [PUBLISHED] [Wollman, Author, with Fagg and Arnold, Circuit Judges]
Criminal case - Criminal law. Items seized from defendant's person after his arrest were admissible; no error in admitting evidence defendant carried a false ID card; evidence was sufficient to support defendants Alexander's and Brown's convictions for conspiracy and possession of PCP and cocaine with intent to distribute; no error in denying motion for new trial based on newly discovered evidence as the evidence, at best, was impeachment material; fact of a prior conviction is a sentencing factor to be found by the district court and is not a fact issue to be found by the jury; mandatory minimum sentence did not violate the Eighth Amendments's prohibition on cruel and unusual punishment; evidence was sufficient to support defendants Alexander's and Alexander-Butler's convictions for conspiracy to commit wire fraud.