141769P.pdf   03/09/2015  United States  v.  Ismael Corrales-Portillo
   U.S. Court of Appeals Case No:  14-1769
   U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Iowa - Des Moines   
   [PUBLISHED] [Riley, Author, with Beam and Gruender, Circuit Judges] 
   Criminal case - Criminal law and sentencing. In this case, the totality of 
   the circumstances - including the police officers' independent 
   observations - sufficiently established the first-time informant's 
   reliability and provided reasonable suspicion for the stop of defendants' 
   vehicle; there was a sufficient factual basis for giving a deliberate 
   ignorance instruction; evidence was sufficient to support defendant Ismael 
   Corrales-Portillo's convictions for conspiracy to distribute 
   methamphetamine and heroin and for possession of the drugs with intent to 
   distribute; no error in denying Ismael Corrales-Potillo's motion for a 
   minimal role reduction; Jose Corrales-Portillo's sentence is affirmed as 
   he has failed to establish that the court plainly erred in calculating his 
   guidelines range and he has failed to overcome the presumption that his 
   within-guidelines sentence was reasonable.