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083488P.pdf   08/17/2009  United States  v.  Leobardo Barraza
   U.S. Court of Appeals Case No:  08-3488
   U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri - St. Louis   
   [PUBLISHED] [Benton, Author, with Hansen and Bye, Circuit Judges]
   Criminal case -criminal law and sentencing. District court did not err in
   finding juror's responses during voir dire showed the ability to follow the
   court's instructions and set aside any initial impressions; hearsay 
   challenges to admission of three pieces of evidence rejected;
   constitutional challenge to the federal kidnapping statute rejected as the
   statute is not unconstitutionally vague and overbroad; life sentence is not
   unconstitutionally disproportionate given the nature and scope of the
   crime and defendant's actions. Judge Bye, dissenting.