092018P.pdf   08/25/2010  United States  v.  Marquise Laguan Bowie
   U.S. Court of Appeals Case No:  09-2018
                          and No:  09-2295
   U.S. District Court for the District of Minnesota - St. Paul   
   [PUBLISHED] [Riley, Author, with Bright and Wollman, Circuit Judges]
   Criminal case - criminal law and sentencing. The record established a
   factual basis for defendant Bowie's guilty plea; the district court did not
   err in denying his motion to withdraw his plea as Bowie understood his
   plea and possible sentence and had not been coerced into making a plea;
   Bowie's sentence is affirmed as the district court was not required to vary
   downward based on the crack/cocaine disparity; evidence was sufficient
   to support defendant Edwards's convictions for drug and firearm
   conspiracies; various evidentiary challenges rejected; claim of
   prosecutorial misconduct rejected; Edwards's claim that the district court
   was biased against him is rejected; no error in denying motion for a bill of
   particulars or in denying motion to dismiss the indictment; Edwards's
   sentence was not unreasonable. Judge Bright, dissenting with respect to
   the affirmance of the defendants' crack sentences.