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091308P.pdf   02/18/2010  United States  v.  Juan Chavez-Alvarez
   U.S. Court of Appeals Case No:  09-1308
                          and No:  09-1533
   U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Iowa - Des Moines   
   [PUBLISHED] [Wollman, Author, with John R. Gibson and Shepherd,
   Circuit Judges]
   Criminal case - criminal law. Evidence was sufficient to support
   defendants' drug convictions; district court did not err in giving a willful
   blindness instruction; district court did not abuse its discretion by giving
   the jury English-language transcripts of Spanish-language recordings for
   its use during deliberations.