091191P.pdf   07/02/2009  United States  v.  Jason Pepper
   U.S. Court of Appeals Case No:  09-1191
   U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Iowa - Sioux City   
   [PUBLISHED] [Riley, Author, with Smith and Colloton, Circuit Judges]
   Criminal case - Sentencing. For the court's most recent opinion in the
   series of appeal involving Pepper's sentence, see United States v. Pepper,
   518 F.3d 949 (8th Cir. 2008), cert. denied 129 S.Ct. 138 (2008). This
   court's remand did not require the district court to reduce Pepper's
   advisory Guidelines sentence by at least 40% pursuant to Guidelines
   5K1.1; district court did not abuse its discretion by refusing to grant more
   than a 20% reduction based on Pepper's substantial assistance; district
   court did not abuse its discretion by denying Pepper's request for a
   downward variance based on his post-sentencing rehabilitation and the
   cost of his incarceration; sentence was not substantively unreasonable.