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172753P.pdf   03/29/2019  United States  v.  Ampelio Hernandez
   U.S. Court of Appeals Case No:  17-2753
                          and No:  17-2754
                          and No:  17-2755
   U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Arkansas - Little Rock   
[PUBLISHED] [Colloton, Author, with Gruender and Grasz, Circuit Judges] Criminal case - Criminal law and sentencing. Where the indictment alleged the conspiracy continued through on or about September 1, 2015, events later in the month were within the scope of the alleged conspiracy and the district court did not constructively amend the indictment by admitting the evidence; evidence was sufficient to support defendants' convictions for conspiracy to traffic in 500 grams of methamphetamine; evidence was sufficient to support Hernandez's conviction for conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine; evidence was sufficient to support convictions for possession of firearms in furtherance of drug trafficking; challenge to jury instructions on the charge rejected; improperly long sentences on counts charging Social Security fraud were harmless error as the same concurrent sentence of 151 months was properly imposed on the other ten counts.