163612P.pdf   07/25/2017  United States  v.  Cowan Godfrey
   U.S. Court of Appeals Case No:  16-3612
   U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Iowa - Dubuque   
   [PUBLISHED] [Gruender, Author, with Wollman and Shepherd, Circuit Judges] 
   Criminal case - Sentencing. The court's comments at sentencing did not 
   show that it had improperly shifted the burden of proving self-defense to 
   the defendant; the district court did not clearly err in denying defendant 
   an acceptance-of-responsibility reduction based on his false denial of his 
   relevant conduct; the record showed the district court amply considered 
   the sentencing guidelines in determining sentence; the district court 
   provided an adequate explanation of its sentencing decision; the district 
   court's decision to impose an upward variance was not an abuse of its 
   discretion, and defendant's 120-month sentence was not substantively 
   unreasonable; where the district court found defendant had a history of 
   abusing alcohol, the imposition of a special condition prohibiting 
   defendant from using alcohol or entering bars was not an abuse of the 
   court's discretion.