173040P.pdf   12/17/2018  United States  v.  Kevin Williams
   U.S. Court of Appeals Case No:  17-3040
   U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Iowa - Des Moines   
   [PUBLISHED] [Shepherd, Author, with Loken and Benton, Circuit Judges] 
   Criminal case - Criminal law and sentencing. Evidence was sufficient to 
   support defendant's convictions for conspiracy to distribute marijuana, 
   interference with commerce by robbery, using and carrying a firearm in 
   relation to a drug trafficking offense and being a felon in possession of 
   a firearm; because the court affirms defendant's conviction for conspiracy 
   to possess with intent to distribute, which is undisputedly a drug 
   trafficking offense, the predicate offense required to support a 
   conviction for using and carrying a firearm in relation to a drug 
   trafficking offense is satisfied without regard to whether a Hobbs Act 
   robbery qualified as a crime of violence; while defendant's 150-month 
   sentence for the conspiracy exceeds the 60-month statutory maximum 
   applicable to the amount of marijuana involved, his sentence does not need 
   to be vacated and the matter does not need to be remanded for resentencing 
   under the sentencing package doctrine because the same 150-month sentence 
   was lawfully imposed on two other counts, and there is no indication the 
   district court would have imposed a different sentence for either of the 
   counts for which defendant received a 150-month sentence or that the 
   district court's evaluation of the 3553(a) factors would have been any 
   different if the court had used the correct statutory maximum for the 
   conspiracy count.