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112671P.pdf   01/17/2013  United States  v.  Carlos Ponce
   U.S. Court of Appeals Case No:  11-2671
   U.S. District Court for the District of Nebraska - Lincoln   
   [PUBLISHED] [Colloton, Author, with Bye and Smith, Circuit Judges]
   Criminal case - Criminal law and sentencing. Given the circumstantial
   evidence of distribution - drug quantity and purity and the possession of
   tools of the trade - no rational trier of fact could have found that
   defendant possessed the drugs merely for personal use, and the district
   court did not err in refusing to give defendant's instruction on the lesser
   included offense of possession; sentence was not substantively
   unreasonable.