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093457P.pdf 05/13/2010 United States v. Heather Ceballos
U.S. Court of Appeals Case No: 09-3457
U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Iowa - Council Bluffs
[PUBLISHED] [Murphy, Author, with Wollman and Shepherd, Circuit Judges]
Criminal case - criminal law and sentencing. No error in admitting
evidence of prior drug sales where defendant acted as a translator to
facilitate the deals as the evidence was admissible to rebut her coercion
defense; evidence was sufficient to support defendant's conviction; no
error in denying safety valve sentencing based on the court's finding that
defendant had not carried her burden of proof on the question of whether
she had provided the government with all of the information and evidence
she had about the conspiracy's drug dealings.