091330P.pdf   05/14/2010  United States  v.  James Stenger
   U.S. Court of Appeals Case No:  09-1330
                          and No:  09-1499
                          and No:  09-1694
   U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Iowa - Des Moines   
   [PUBLISHED] [Wollman, Author, with Loken, Chief Judge, and John
   R. Gibson, Circuit Judge]
   Criminal case - criminal law and sentencing. Government's frank
   admission that it would file a three-strikes notice if plea negotiations
   failed is the kind of candid disclosure that is permissible in plea
   negotiations, and the subsequent decision to file the notice did not
   constitute vindictive prosecution; no error in admitting evidence of other
   bak robberies as the other robberies were similar to the charged crime and
   the evidence was relevant to identity; challenges to admission of
   testimony from cooperating witnesses rejected; evidence was sufficient to
   support defendants' conviction for bank robbery and use of a firearm
   during a crime of violence; on the government's cross-appeal of
   defendant Stenger's sentence, the district court did not commit plain error
   in setting the sentence.