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083816P.pdf   09/15/2009  United States  v.  Edward Lee Smith
   U.S. Court of Appeals Case No:  08-3816
   U.S. District Court for the District of Minnesota - St. Paul   
   [PUBLISHED] [Loken, Author, with John R. Gibson and Gruender,
   Circuit Judges]
   Criminal case - criminal law and sentencing. Application for search
   warrant established probable cause to search defendant's residence for
   evidence of drug trafficking; 21 U.S.C. Sec. 841(b)(1)(B) does not violate
   the double jeopardy clause since the increased punishment set out in the
   statute is a stiffened penalty for the current crime and not an increases
   penalty for the earlier crime.