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093181P.pdf   07/30/2010  United States  v.  Gary Cates
   U.S. Court of Appeals Case No:  09-3181
   U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Iowa - Cedar Rapids   
   [PUBLISHED] [Riley, Author, with John R. Gibson and Murphy,
   Circuit Judges]
   Criminal case - Sentencing. District court did not err by rejecting
   defendant's explanations for positive marijuana tests; district court erred
   in finding defendant's possession of marijuana was a grade A violation of
   supervised release; however, because the court indicated it would
   impose the same sentence whether the offense was Grade A or Grade B,
   the procedural error was harmless; the sentence imposed upon revocation
   of defendant's supervised release was not unreasonable.