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093397P.pdf   07/16/2010  United States  v.  Esteban Ruiz-Chavez
   U.S. Court of Appeals Case No:  09-3397
   U.S. District Court for the District of South Dakota - Sioux Falls   
   [PUBLISHED] [Wollman, Author, with Ebel and Colloton, Circuit Judges]
   Criminal case - criminal law. Circumstances of defendant's 2006 arrest
   were probative of his involvement in the drug conspiracy charges at issue
   in this case, and the district court did not err in admitting evidence of the
   arrest; Rule 403 and 404(b) challenges to the evidence rejected.