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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.