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171140P.pdf 08/02/2018 United States v. Anthony King
U.S. Court of Appeals Case No: 17-1140
and No: 17-1976
U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Arkansas - Little Rock
[PUBLISHED] [Erickson, Author, with Wollman and Shepherd, Circuit Judges]
Criminal case - Criminal law and sentencing. In prosecution for operating
a pill mill, the admission of Prescription Monitoring Program data offered
by the government was not not erroneous as the information in the data was
corroborated by other evidence; no error in admitting testimony from the
government's physician expert regarding standard of medical care and the
PMP data; no error in admitting testimony from defendant Raines's
co-worker and fellow nurse regarding her observations and knowledge as it
was circumstantial evidence on defendant Raines's knowledge or willful
blindness; any error in admitting a videotape of the pill mill's operation
shot by an informant was harmless as the video was cumulative and
consistent with the extensive testimony concerning daily operations at the
clinic; no error in giving a willful blindness instruction; no error in
rejecting defendant Raines's good faith instruction as it was not an
accurate statement of the law; evidence was sufficient to support Raines's
conviction for conspiracy to distribute controlled substances without an
effective prescription; Raines's challenge to drug quantity calculations
rejected; no error in imposing an abuse-of-trust enhancement for defendant
Raines; both Raines's and King's sentences were substantively reasonable.