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153837P.pdf   11/02/2016  Juan Arteaga Talavera  v.  United States
   U.S. Court of Appeals Case No:  15-3837
   U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Iowa - Des Moines   
   [PUBLISHED] [Loken, Author, with Gruender and Benton, Circuit Judges] 
   Prisoner case - Habeas. Nothing in the record showed that Talavera would 
   have pleaded guilty if properly advised regarding possible safety-valve 
   relief, and his claim that counsel was constitutionally ineffective for 
   providing erroneous advice on the issue is rejected; additionally, with 
   respect to Talavera's claim that the ineffective assistance prevented him 
   from pursuing the safety valve after conviction and before sentencing, 
   there was no evidence he would have proffered information regarding a 
   crime he denied committing; further, Talavera received an 
   obstruction-of-justice enhancement for threatening a cooperating witness 
   and was ineligible for safety-valve sentencing.