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062296P.pdf   10/29/2007  United States  v.  Lori Lynn Coyle
   U.S. Court of Appeals Case No:  06-2296
                          and No:  06-2525
   U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Iowa - Sioux City   
   [PUBLISHED] [Colloton, Author, with Beam and Gruender, Circuit
   Judges]
   Criminal case - Sentencing. The court refuses to reconsider its decision
   in U.S. v. Coyle, 429 F.3d 1192 (8th Cir. 2005), that a substantial-
   assistance reduction from 135 months to 36 months' imprisonment was
   unreasonable; when the court remanded this case for resentencing, the
   district court was not prohibited from considering factors other than
   substantial assistance in fashioning Coyle's sentence, and the court could
   rely to some degree on both 18 U.S.C. Sec. 3553(a) and (e) factors in
   deciding upon a sentence; however, the court erred in relying on an
   impermissible factor - post-sentencing rehabilitation - when it applied
   Sec. 3553(a), and the case must be remanded for resentencing.