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141455P.pdf   06/22/2015  United States  v.  Randy Hentges
   U.S. Court of Appeals Case No:  14-1455
   U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Iowa - Dubuque   
   [PUBLISHED] [Colloton, Author, with Bye and Gruender, Circuit Judges] 
   Criminal case - Sentencing. It is unnecessary to address whether the 
   district court erred in finding defendant's prior convictions qualified 
   him as a career offender as the district court's alternative decision to 
   vary upward from the advisory guidelines range is sufficient to justify 
   the sentence imposed; while the court did announce its intended sentence 
   before granting defendant his right of allocution, the court did invite 
   him to speak before imposing sentence, and this procedure does not violate 
   Rule 32(i) or the Constitution.