173776P.pdf   04/13/2020  United States  v.  Ronald David Johnson
   U.S. Court of Appeals Case No:  17-3776
                          and No:  18-2455
                          and No:  19-1449
   U.S. District Court for the District of Minnesota - St. Paul   
   [PUBLISHED] [Wollman, Author, with Colloton and Kelly, Circuit Judges] 
   Criminal case - Criminal law and sentencing. The district court did not 
   plainly err in adopting the magistrate judge's finding that defendant's 
   consent to the search of his truck was voluntarily given; venue for the 
   wire fraud counts was proper in Minnesota as a reasonable jury could find 
   that the emails charged in the counts were sent from or received in 
   Minnesota; the district court did not abuse its discretion in sentencing 
   defendant and in giving greater weight to factors other than Johnson's 
   baseless promise of repaying the victims of his fraud; the court's $2.1 
   million personal judgment forfeiture did not violate the Eighth Amendment 
   prohibition against excessive fines; arguments raised in defendant's two 
   pro se appeals were without merit and are rejected.