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093267P.pdf   08/20/2010  United States  v.  Velma Mireles
   U.S. Court of Appeals Case No:  09-3267
   U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Arkansas - Little Rock   
   [PUBLISHED] [Gruender, Author, with Bye and Beam, Circuit Judges]
   Criminal case - Sentencing. Defendant failed to show court's failure to
   determine whether the guidelines permitted a traditional departure before
   sentencing was plain error as the court would have been justified in
   imposing the same sentence under the traditional departure analysis;
   district court did not err in basing its sentence on a finding that the
   conduct was related to drug trafficking. Judge Bye, dissenting.