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182958P.pdf   01/08/2020  United States  v.  Antonio Outlaw
   U.S. Court of Appeals Case No:  18-2958
   U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Iowa - Cedar Rapids   
[PUBLISHED] [Colloton, Author, with Loken and Kobes, Circuit Judges] Criminal Case Criminal Law and Sentence. Outlaw pleaded guilty to distributing heroin and a jury convicted him of conspiring to distribute heroin and aiding and abetting. On appeal, Outlaw challenges the sufficiency of the evidence to support the jury verdicts. Ample evidence was presented that Outlaw knowingly and intentionally joined a conspiracy to distribute heroin; based on the evidence supporting aiding and abetting charge, a jury reasonably could have inferred that Outlaw knew in advance that he was driving to a drug transaction and intentionally facilitated his associate's transfer of heroin. The district court did not clearly err in applying the four-level increase for an aggravating role in the offense under Guidelines sec. 3B1.1(a), or the two-level increase for obstruction of justice under Guidlines sec. 3C1.1, as there was sufficient evidence to support the court's finding. The sentence within the advisory range was reasonable.