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113189P.pdf 11/29/2013 United States v. Milo Davis
U.S. Court of Appeals Case No: 11-3189
U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Iowa - Cedar Rapids
[PUBLISHED] [Riley, Author, with Bye and Melloy, Circuit Judges]
Criminal case - Criminal law. On remand from the U.S. Supreme Court for
reconsideration in light of Alleyne v. United States, 133 S.Ct 2151 (2013.
For the court's prior opinion in the matter, see U.S. v. Davis, 690 F.3d
912 (8th Cir. 2012). Having reconsidered Davis's appeal as directed by the
Supreme Court, the court again affirms the district court's judgment and
reinstates all but Part II.F. of the opinion; any Alleyne error was
harmless.
113189P.pdf 08/22/2012 United States v. Milo Davis
U.S. Court of Appeals Case No: 11-3189
U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Iowa - Cedar Rapids
[PUBLISHED] [Riley, Author, with Bye and Melloy, Circuit Judges]
Criminal case - Criminal Law and Sentencing. Evidence was sufficient
to support defendant's conviction for conspiracy to distribute crack and
cocaine and for money laundering; claim of unconstitutional pre-
indictment delay rejected; refusal of defense witness to identify his drug
sources on cross-examination justified striking his testimony as his
refusal deprived the government of the ability to fully cross examine him
by testing his assertion that he had not engaged in drug dealing with
defendant; district court did not err in refusing to give defendant's
proposed instruction on spoilation of evidence where he failed to show
the destroyed videotape was exculpatory or had been destroyed in bad
faith; no error in refusing to give defendant's proposed multiple
conspiracies instruction; district court did not abuse its discretion n
refusing to remove a juror after she disclosed her familiarity with the
Assistant U.S. Attorney and a Special Agent witness as she did not
answer the voir dire questions about the men in a deliberately dishonest
fashion or out of partiality, took immediate steps to alert the court as soon
as she recalled past contacts and unequivocally affirmed her ability to be
impartial; any error in failing to apply the Fair Sentencing Act
retroactively was harmless under the facts of the case.