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143802P.pdf   03/14/2016  United States  v.  Alpha Rashidi Mshihiri
   U.S. Court of Appeals Case No:  14-3802
   U.S. District Court for the District of Minnesota - St. Paul   
[PUBLISHED] [Wollman, Author, with Beam and Gruender, Circuit Judges] Criminal case - Criminal law and sentencing. Defendant's statements to investigators were properly admitted as they were voluntary; the government's evidence proved a single conspiracy involving four properties and not multiple conspiracies; no error in denying defendant's motion to suppress a pretrial and an in-court identification by one of the government's witnesses who met defendant during one of the transactions; the district court did not err in calculating the amount of loss; the court's relevant conducts findings are affirmed; no error in imposing an enhancement for obstruction of justice based on defendant's false testimony at the suppression hearing and at trial; neither Apprendi nor Alleyne apply to defendant's case as the district court's findings did not increase the statutory maximum sentence or the statutory mandatory minimum sentence.