153248P.pdf   07/11/2016  United States  v.  Juan Leanos
   U.S. Court of Appeals Case No:  15-3248
   U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Iowa - Des Moines   
   [PUBLISHED] [Smith, Author, with Loken and Beam, Circuit Judges Criminal 
   case - Sentencing. No error in denying safety-valve relief; Alleyne does 
   not apply to safety-valve determinations, and the government did not need 
   to plead and prove to a jury that defendant possessed a firearm in 
   connection with the underlying drug offense, the possession of which made 
   him ineligible for safety-valve sentencing; the court did not err in 
   finding defendant possessed a firearm in connection with the underlying 
   drug offense; any error in denying defendant a role reduction was harmless 
   as a lower guidelines range would not affect the 120-month mandatory 
   minimum applicable to the case.