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122643P.pdf   08/05/2013  United States  v.  Edward Jefferson
   U.S. Court of Appeals Case No:  12-2643
   U.S. District Court for the Western District of Missouri - Kansas City   
[PUBLISHED] [Loken, Author, with Riley, Chief Judge, and Shepherd, Circuit Judges] Criminal case - Criminal law and Sentencing. Evidence was sufficient to support defendant's conviction on drug conspiracy and communications charges; no error in calculating drug quantity; sentence was not substantively unreasonable; challenge to jury composition rejected; there was no constructive amendment of the indictment or variance between the indictment and the proof; Rule 404(b) argument regarding evidence of a traffic stop and drug possession conviction rejected; district court did not abuse its discretion by permitting the jury to hear certain tapes during its deliberations; challenge to Allen charge rejected; 8 pro se arguments rejected without comment.