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064097P.pdf   12/26/2007  United States of America  v.  Vincent Bertling
   U.S. Court of Appeals Case No:  06-4097
                          and No:  07-1267
   U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Iowa - Sioux City   
   [PUBLISHED] [Gruender, Author, with Loken, Chief Judge, and
   Benton, Circuit Judge]
   Criminal case - criminal law. District court erred in granting
   defendants' motions for new trial on their convictions for conspiring to
   impede justice, as the evidence in the case does not weigh so heavily
   against the jury's finding that a miscarriage of justice would result if the
   convictions were not set aside; district court did not err in refusing to
   apply the sporting purposes or collection reduction of Guidelines Sec.
   2K2.1(b)(2), as the evidence established defendant used the handgun in
   question for personal protection.