082543P.pdf   03/04/2010  United States  v.  Raphael Donnell
   U.S. Court of Appeals Case No:  08-2543
                          and No:  08-3102
                          and No:  08-3539
                          and No:  09-1580
   U.S. District Court for the Western District of Missouri - Kansas City   
   [PUBLISHED][Gruender, Author, with Melloy and Beam, Circuit Judges]
   Criminal case - criminal law. District court did not abuse its discretion
   by admitting recordings between the coconspirators or in admitting a
   handwritten note from defendant Donnell as both pieces of evidence bore
   on defendant Donnell's participation in the conspiracy and his knowledge
   of its illegal purpose; any error in admitting evidence of Donnell's 2002
   drug conviction was harmless; any error in admitting evidence of
   defendant Johnson's drug convictions was also harmless; there was no
   fatal variance between the indictment and the evidence against defendant
   Nguyen; evidence was sufficient to show Nguyen participated in the
   conspiracy alleged in the indictment and was more than a mere buyer-
   seller; evidence was sufficient to support defendant Rattanavong's
   conviction; arguments raised in pro se briefs would not be considered.