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162056P.pdf 04/14/2017 United States v. Martin Lawrence
U.S. Court of Appeals Case No: 16-2056
U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Iowa - Cedar Rapids
[PUBLISHED] [Melloy, Author, with Wollman and Murphy, Circuit Judges]
Criminal case - Sentencing. The district court did not rely on objected-to
facts in the presentence report to calculate drug quantity, and the
relevant responsive evidence in the case regarding drug amounts had been
produced at trial and supported the drug quantity determination; the court
properly considered defendant's drug-related activity outside the scope of
the conspiracy as relevant conduct; no error in relying on a particular
witness's testimony as part of the drug quantity calculation as his
testimony had indicia of reliability and the district court made its own
independent evaluation of the reliability of the evidence.