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132668P.pdf   08/25/2014  United States  v.  Charles Koss
   U.S. Court of Appeals Case No:  13-2668
   U.S. District Court for the Western District of Missouri - Kansas City   
   [PUBLISHED] [Colloton, Author, with Murphy and Kelly, Circuit Judges] 
   Criminal case - Criminal law and sentencing. The evidence was sufficient 
   to prove defendant possessed the requisite mens rea for conviction of 
   theft of government money, Social Security disability fraud, mail fraud 
   and passing a false financial instrument; instructions concerning 
   defendant's refusal to provide handwriting exmeplars (one on judicial 
   notice and one on the inferences the jury could draw) were not erroneous; 
   district court did not err in imposing an enhancement under Guidelines 
   Sec. 3C1.1for obstruction of justice; nor did the court err in using 
   Guidelines Sec. 2B1.1(b)(1) for calculation of loss; sentence was not 
   substantively unreasonable.