072631P.pdf   08/13/2008  United States  v.  Anthony Saddler, Jr.
   U.S. Court of Appeals Case No:  07-2631
   U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Iowa, Waterloo   
   [PUBLISHED] [Gruender, Author, with Riley and Shepherd, Circuit Judges]
   Criminal case - Criminal law and sentencing. Evidence was sufficient
   to support convictions for drug and firearm conspiracies and firearm
   possession; district court explicitly stated it understood its authority 
   to grant a departure and its refusal to do so is unreviewable on appeal;
   district court did not apply a presumption of reasonableness to the
   advisory guidelines range and imposed a reasonable sentence; district
   court did not abuse its discretion by failing to consider the disparity
   between crack and cocaine sentences; jury determined the offenses
   involved crack cocaine, and defendant's argument that the court
   improperly found that fact in violation of his rights under Apprendi is
   rejected.