171411P.pdf   01/24/2018  United States  v.  Muhammad Anwar
   U.S. Court of Appeals Case No:  17-1411
   U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Iowa - Waterloo   
   [PUBLISHED] [Smith, Author, with Wollman and Gruender, Circuit Judges] 
   Criminal case - Criminal law and sentencing. Evidence was sufficient to 
   support defendant's convictions for conspiracy to distribute a controlled 
   substance or controlled substance analogue, and conspiracy to launder 
   money; the government did not commit a Brady violation when it failed to 
   disclose that a co-defendant had confessed as the confession was neither 
   favorable nor material to defendant's case; the district court did not 
   abuse its discretion by denying defendant's Rule 33 motion based on the 
   government eliciting a statement from a witness that defendant had 
   previous legal troubles and a federal prosecution, as the improper 
   testimony was brief, the evidence of defendant's guilt was overwhelming 
   and the court gave a proper instruction at the close of the case reminding 
   the jury to focus on the elements of the offenses and not on peripheral 
   issues; no error in using the 1:167 marijuana equivalency ratio in 
   calculating drug quantity for purposes of determining defendant's base 
   offense level; no error in imposing an enhancement under Guidelines Sec. 
   2D1.1(b)(12) for maintaining a drug premises where defendant used his 
   leased shop to store and distribute synthetic cannabinoid; no error in 
   imposing a manager or supervisor enhancement under Guidelines sec. 
   3B1.1(b); below-Guidelines sentence was not substantively unreasonable.