083791P.pdf   04/02/2010  United States  v.  Phieu Nguyen
   U.S. Court of Appeals Case No:  08-3791
                          and No:  08-3804
                          and No:  08-3854
   U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Iowa - Sioux City   
   [PUBLISHED] [Riley, Author, with Smith and Gruender, Circuit Judges]
   Criminal case - criminal law and sentencing. Defendant David
   Nguyen's sentence was not constitutionally defective and his challenge to
   the sentence fell within his plea waiver and must be dismissed; evidence
   was sufficient to support defendant Va's conviction for conspiracy;
   district court's instruction that conspiracy may serve as a predicate
   offense for the crime of Continuing Criminal Enterprise was a correct
   statement of the law; instruction submitting alternate theories of money
   laundering was not erroneous; evidence was sufficient to support
   defendant Phieu's convictions for Continuing Criminal Enterprise and
   money laundering; forfeiture order for defendant Phieu's car vacated as
   the government concedes there was not a sufficient connection between
   the vehicle and the crime of Continuing Criminal Enterprise; forfeiture of
   Phieu's house and cash affirmed.