164116P.pdf   01/24/2018  United States  v.  Elizabeth Lopez
   U.S. Court of Appeals Case No:  16-4116
   U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Iowa - Sioux City   
   [PUBLISHED] [Smith, Author, with Wollman and Gruender, Circuit Judges] 
   Criminal case - Criminal law. Agent's testimony regarding the amount of 
   meth a user might consume on a daily basis was based on his experience 
   interviewing addicts, family members and arrestees, and the testimony was 
   not hearsay and was admissible under Rule 702; because the testimony was 
   not hearsay it was not governed by Rule 703; admission of the testimony 
   did not violate defendant's Sixth Amendment confrontation rights; the 
   district court did not err in giving an instruction permitting an 
   inference of intent to distribute based on drug purity; venue as a 
   jurisdictional fact was an appropriate subject for judicial notice, and 
   the court did not err in finding the government met its burden of proof on 
   venue; evidence was sufficient to support defendant's convictions for 
   conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine and possession of the drug with 
   intent to distribute.