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071476P.pdf   03/11/2008  United States  v.  Shawn Burnette
   U.S. Court of Appeals Case No:  07-1476
   U.S. District Court for the District of South Dakota - Pierre   
   [PUBLISHED] [Benton, Author, with Colloton and Beam, Circuit
   Judges]
Criminal case - Criminal law and Sentencing. Applying the plain error of standard of review, the district court did not err by not recusing sua sponte; defendant waived any objections to the district court's drug quantity calculations; argument that the court erred in refusing to grant an acceptance-of-responsibility reduction was waived; district court erred in applying a presumption of reasonableness to the advisory guidelines sentence, but the error was harmless because defendant failed to show that, but for the error, the court would have imposed a lesser sentence; sentence was reasonable.