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071712P.pdf   08/29/2008  United States  v.  Derrick Howard
   U.S. Court of Appeals Case No:  07-1712
   U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri - St. Louis   
   [PUBLISHED] [Wollman, Author, with Beam and Riley, Circuit Judges]
   Criminal case - Criminal law. District court did not abuse its discretion
   when it denied defendant's request for a continuance to study tapes of his
   jail house phone calls; indictment was not constructively amended by the
   jury instructions as the difference between "facility of interstate
   commerce" (instruction) and "facility in interstate commerce"
   (indictment) did not change the essential elements of the offense.