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063977P.pdf 08/24/2007 United States v. Travis Soldier
U.S. Court of Appeals Case No: 06-3977
U.S. District Court for the District of South Dakota
[PUBLISHED] [Shepherd, Author, with Murphy and Beam, Circuit
Judges]
Criminal case - Criminal law and sentencing. Evidence was sufficient
to support defendant's conviction on drug conspiracy charge; evidence at
trial was not materially different from the allegations of the indictment,
and the indictment was sufficient to fully inform defendant of the charges
he would face at trial; claim government charged a single conspiracy and
proved multiple conspiracies rejected; drug quantity finding was not
clearly erroneous; no error in imposing an enhancement for obstruction of
justice based on the court's finding that defendant perjured himself; no
error in denying minimal-participant role reduction; district court did not
abuse its discretion in imposing a sentence at the bottom of the properly
calculated Guidelines range.