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062726P.pdf 07/18/2007 United States v. Donovan New
U.S. Court of Appeals Case No: 06-2726
U.S. District Court for the District of South Dakota
[PUBLISHED] [Colloton, Author, with Gruender, Circuit Judge,
and Goldberg, Judge of the U.S. Court of International Trade]
Criminal case - Criminal law and sentencing. Defendant was not
in police custody when he made certain statements at a hospital
concerning a fatal accident; statements were voluntarily made and
were admissible; no error in admitting evidence of defendant's two
prior convictions for driving under the influence as the convictions
bore on the issue of knowledge of risk of harm; government violated
the Jencks Act by failing to produce an agent's report, as defendant
could not show prejudice from the violation; claims of prosecutorial
misconduct rejected; no error in imposing an adjustment under
Guidelines Sec. 3C1.1 for obstruction of justice based on defendant's
perjury; 144-month sentence for involuntary manslaughter was not
unreasonable as it was within the applicable Guidelines range and did
not create disparities among similarly-situated defendants.