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113587P.pdf   11/14/2012  United States  v.  Clarence Rice
   U.S. Court of Appeals Case No:  11-3587
   U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Iowa - Des Moines   
   [PUBLISHED] [Murphy, Author, with Loken and Beam, Circuit Judges]
   Criminal case - Criminal law and sentencing. Taking the jury
   instructions as a whole, the jury was adequately advised of the essential
   elements of the wire fraud charges and the burden of proof required of the
   government; district court did not err in calculating the amount of the loss
   or in ordering restitution; the district court sufficiently explained its
   decision not to depart or vary downward; court would not address the
   reasonableness of the sentence as defendant did not raise the issue in his
   opening brief and thereby waived the issue.