113736P.pdf   05/02/2014  United States  v.  Samuel Ford
   U.S. Court of Appeals Case No:  11-3736
   U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Iowa - Cedar Rapids   
   [PUBLISHED] [Smith, Author, with Loken and Benton, Circuit Judges] 
   Criminal case - Criminal law. On remand from the United States Supreme 
   Court for reconsideration in light of Burrage v. United States, 134 S.Ct. 
   881 (2014). For the court's prior opinion in the matter, see United States 
   v. Ford, 717 F.3d 612 (8th Cir. 2013). The court again affirm Ford's 
   conviction on Count II for distributing a mixture of cocaine and heroin; 
   Ford's conviction on Count I for distributing heroin resulting in death is 
   reversed as the government failed to prove that the drug Ford distributed 
   to the deceased victim was a "but-for" cause of his death; because the 
   jury unanimously found that Ford distributed heroin within 1,000 feet of a 
   school, the district court is directed to enter judgment on the lesser 
   included offense of distributing a controlled substance within 1,000 feet 
   of a protected location, and the case is remanded for resentencing. 
  
113736P.pdf   06/20/2013  United States  v.  Samuel Ford
   U.S. Court of Appeals Case No:  11-3736
   U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Iowa - Cedar Rapids   
   [PUBLISHED] [Smith, Author, with Loken and Benton, Circuit Judges]
   Criminal case - Criminal law. Evidence was sufficient to support 
   defendant's conviction for knowingly and intentionally distributing a mix 
   of heroin causing death; the district court did not abuse its discretion 
   in denying a motion for new trial based on an alleged Brady violation as 
   there was no Brady violation; court could not conduct a meaningful review 
   of defendant's claim regarding a ruling on a motion in limine concerning 
   prior bad acts evidence in the absence of a transcript of the hearing on 
   the motion, and defendant's supplemental brief on the issue is stricken.