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072407P.pdf 08/27/2008 United States v. Keith Wright
U.S. Court of Appeals Case No: 07-2407
U.S. District Court for the District of South Dakota
[PUBLISHED] [Melloy, Author, with Wollman and Bowman, Circuit Judges]
Criminal case - criminal law and sentencing. Defendant who was
charged after his eighteenth birthday for acts he committed while he was
minor cannot invoke the protection of the Juvenile Delinquency Act;
evidence was sufficient to support conviction for attempted aggravated
sexual abuse; argument that the indictment was constructively amended is
rejected as the indictment and the jury instructions were identical; Jencks
Act claim rejected; hearsay claims rejected; while some of the questions
asked of one child victim were leading, the error was harmless; district
court did not err in determining some of the offenses occurred after the
effective date for Guidelines Sec. 4B1.5, and the district court did not err
in imposing a five-level enhancement under the provision; no error in
imposing an enhancement under Guidelines Sec. 2A3.1(b)(3)(A), as the
victims were under defendant' care and control when their guardians
were absent; fine upheld.