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071930P.pdf   02/28/2008  United States  v.  Telize Johnson
   U.S. Court of Appeals Case No:  07-1930
   U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Iowa - Des Moines   
   [PUBLISHED] [Murphy, Author, with Loken, Chief Judge, and
   Hansen, Circuit Judge]
   Criminal case - Sentencing. District court's decision not to grant a
   downward departure was unreviewable in absence of evidence that the
   district court misunderstood its authority or had an unconstitutional
   motive; in reducing a sentence below the statutory minimum for a
   defendant's substantial assistance, a court may only consider factors
   related to that assistance, and may not use the factors set out in 18 U.S.C.
   Sec. 3553(a) to further reduce the sentence; recent amendments to the
   crack cocaine guidelines do not affect defendant because his sentence was
   subject to statutory mandatory minimums.