063500P.pdf   04/17/2008  United States  v.  Steven Wayne Pruett
   U.S. Court of Appeals Case No:  06-3500
   U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Iowa - Des Moines   
   [PUBLISHED] [Per Curiam - Before Melloy, Bowman and Gruender,
   Circuit Judges]
   Criminal case - Criminal law. Based on the holding in Watson v.
   United States that a person does not use a firearm when he receives it in
   trade for drugs, defendant's conviction for using a firearm in furtherance
   of a drug trafficking crime is reversed, and the case is remanded for
   further proceedings.
  
063500P.pdf   09/06/2007  United States  v.  Steven Wayne Pruett
   U.S. Court of Appeals Case No:  06-3500
   U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Iowa - Des Moines   
   [PUBLISHED] [Bowman, Author, with Melloy and Gruender, Circuit
   Judges]
   Criminal case - criminal law. Leon "good faith" exception applied to
   search as the magistrate who issued the warrant did not abandon the
   judicial role, the application was not so deficient that reasonable officers
   could not believe it established probable cause, and the application did
   not omit material facts with the intention of misleading the magistrate;
   claim that the government added two counts in retaliation for defendant's
   failure to plead guilty rejected in the absence of any evidence of
   prosecutorial vindictiveness; evidence was sufficient to support
   conspiracy conviction; a person can use a firearm in violation of 18
   U.S.C. Sec. 924(c)(1) by receiving the firearm in a drug for weapons
   exchange.