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053782P.pdf   06/29/2006  United States  v.  James Allen Gregg
   U.S. Court of Appeals Case No:  05-3782
   District of South Dakota   
   [PUBLISHED] [Bye, Author, with Riley and Smith, Circuit Judges]
   Criminal case - criminal law and sentencing. Evidence was sufficient
   to support a conviction for second degree murder; court did not err in
   excluding evidence relating to specific instances of the victim's violent
   conduct as the victim's violent character is not an essential element of
   the claim of self-defense; the 135 month sentence the court imposed for
   the second-degree murder conviction was not unreasonable; discretionary
   denial of requests for downward departure was unreviewable on appeal.