113636P.pdf   02/14/2013  United States  v.  Douglas Hoffman
   U.S. Court of Appeals Case No:  11-3636
                          and No:  11-3778
   U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Iowa, Waterloo   
   [PUBLISHED] [Bye, Author, with Murphy and Shepherd, Circuit Judges]
   Criminal Cases - conviction and sentence. Evidence was sufficient to sustain
   conviction of Lopez-Soto of conspiring to distribute methamphetamine; 
   objections to government's use of indicted drug dealers to support it case is
   a challenge to credibility determination and virtually unreviewable on 
   appeal; conspiracy to commit laundering also supported by sufficient evidence.
   District court did not plainly err in adjusting Lopez-Soto's sentence by 
   three levels for her management role in the conspiracy, or err in grouping 
   the two counts pursuant to Guideline section 3D1.2(c) because laundered money
   derived from unlawful methamphetamine distribution conspiracy. District 
   court did not abuse its discretion in sentencing Lopez-Soto to life
   imprisonment. District court did not plainly err in denying Hoffman right to
   allocute about probation officer's report, as court gave Hoffman an 
   opportunity to speak prior to imposition of sentence; court had wide 
   discretion to consider contents of report in sentence determination.