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082356P.pdf   05/11/2009  United States  v.  Steven James
   U.S. Court of Appeals Case No:  08-2356
   U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri - St. Louis   
   [PUBLISHED] [Wollman, Author, with Loken, Chief Judge, and
   Shepherd, Circuit Judge]
   Criminal case - criminal law and sentencing. In prosecution for
   possession of crack with intent to distribute and conspiracy, no error in
   admitting evidence of defendant's prior drug conviction and evidence that
   defendant brandished a firearm and threatened the arresting officers; no
   error in imposing a two-level enhancement for obstruction of justice
   based on the district court's determination that defendant perjured
   himself at trial; 262-month sentence was neither unreasonable nor a
   violation of the Eighth Amendment's prohibition against cruel and
   unusual punishment.