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051761P.pdf   05/05/2006  United States  v.  Henry Ruiz
   U.S. Court of Appeals Case No:  05-1761
                          and No:  05-2601
                          and No:  05-2088
                          and No:  05-1913
                          and No:  05-1805
                          and No:  05-1804
                          and No:  05-1762
   Western District of Missouri   
   [PUBLISHED] [Smith, Author, with Murphy and Fagg, Circuit Judges]
Criminal case - criminal law and sentencing. This opinion amends an opinion issued on May 1, 2006, and the opinion description can be found under the descriptions for that date. The amendment issued this date consists solely of the addition of a party to the caption. 051761P.pdf 05/01/2006 United States v. Henry Ruiz U.S. Court of Appeals Case No: 05-1761 and No: 05-2601 and No: 05-2088 and No: 05-1913 and No: 05-1805 and No: 05-1804 and No: 05-1762 Western District of Missouri [PUBLISHED] [Smith, Author, with Murphy and Fagg, Circuit Judges]
Criminal case - criminal law and sentencing. Evidence was sufficient to support defendants' convictions on drug and firearms charges; juror bias was not established as juror was being truthful when she stated she did not know defendants and promptly notified court employees when she later deduced that she knew their mother and aunts; admission of edited or compiled video of sting operation identifying each defendant's individual actions was not error; no error in denying motion for severance; district court did not err in basing defendant Augustine's sentence on an amount of drugs larger than that he could have actually purchased with the money he brought to the buy, as the credit or "fronting" arrangement the government agents offered him was not artificially generous and came about as the result of bargaining about drug price and quantity; further, defendant failed to show he was predisposed to only deal in the smaller amount; district court did not err in computing the amount of drugs to be attributed to defendant Darks, and his sentence was non unreasonable.