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132641P.pdf   08/04/2014  United States  v.  Johnelle Bell
   U.S. Court of Appeals Case No:  13-2641
   U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Iowa - Council Bluffs   
   [PUBLISHED] [Smith, Author, with Colloton and Gruender, Circuit Judges] 
   Criminal case - Criminal law and sentencing. Evidence was sufficient to 
   support defendant's convictions for conspiracy to commit sex trafficking, 
   sex trafficking and coercion and enticement to travel in interstate 
   commerce for prostitution; no error in denying defendant's motion for new 
   trial based on the weight of the evidence; no error in denying defendant's 
   motion for new trial based on newly-discovered evidence; no error under 
   Rule 403 in permitting the government to introduce evidence regarding the 
   personal lives of the women victimized in the scheme as part of its 
   evidence that they were vulnerable victims; Eighth Amendment challenge to 
   360-month sentence rejected.