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082721P.pdf   09/01/2009  United States  v.  Elisa Salas-Barraza
   U.S. Court of Appeals Case No:  08-2721
   U.S. District Court for the Western District of Missouri - Kansas City   
   [PUBLISHED] [Smith, Author, with Gruender and Benton, Circuit Judges]
   Criminal case - Sentencing. Under this court's opinion in U.S. v.
   Burns, __ F.3d __, 2009 WL 2525585 (8th Cir., August 20, 2009), district
   court must continue to base their sentence reductions under 18 U.S.C.
   Sec. 3553(e) solely on assistance-related considerations, and the district
   court erred here in basing defendant's sentence on the 3553(a) factors.