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071496P.pdf   02/28/2008  United States  v.  James Weems
   U.S. Court of Appeals Case No:  07-1496
                          and No:  07-1531
   U.S. District Court for the Western District of Arkansas - Texarkana   
   [PUBLISHED] [Wollman, Author, with Smith, Circuit Judge, and
   Gritzner, District Judge]
   Criminal case - Sentencing. In a prosecution for conspiracy to
   intimidate a person in the exercise of his housing rights through a cross-
   burning, the district court erred in calculating the correct guidelines range
   because it failed to apply the three-level hate crime enhancement; the
   court further erred in finding that defendants were minor participants in
   the conspiracy as they failed to show they were less culpable than other
   participants.