063020U.pdf   05/01/2008  United States  v.  Ricardo Watkins
   U.S. Court of Appeals Case No:  06-3020
   U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Iowa - Cedar Rapids   
   [UNPUBLISHED] [Per Curiam - Before Colloton, Gruender and Goldberg]
   Criminal case - Sentencing. On remand for reconsideration under
   Kimbrough v. United States, 128 S. Ct. 558 (2007), the court finds the
   district court did not commit the procedural error identified in Kimbrough
   and did not abuse its substantial discretion in imposing a life sentence.
  
063020P.pdf   05/29/2007  United States  v.  Ricardo Watkins
   U.S. Court of Appeals Case No:  06-3020
   U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Iowa - Cedar Rapids   
   [PUBLISHED] [Gruender, Author, with Colloton, Circuit Judge, and
   Goldberg, Judge of the U.S. Court of International Trade]
   Criminal case - Criminal law and sentencing. Evidence was sufficient
   to support conviction for conspiracy to distribute crack and for
   distribution of the drug; claim of ineffective assistance was developed
   and would be reviewed on appeal; district court did not err in denying
   motion for new trial based on claim of ineffective assistance of counsel;
   district court did not abuse its discretion in refusing to appoint an expert
   to perform a pre-sentencing chemical exam of the crack so that defendant
   could attempt to prove, for sentencing purposes, that it was not crack;
   drug quantity calculations were not erroneous; no error in imposing a
   two-level enhancement under Guidelines Sec. 3B1.4 for use of a minor
   and a three-level enhancement for management role in the offense; life
   sentence was not unreasonable.