183227P.pdf   06/24/2019  United States  v.  Israel Angeles-Moctezuma
   U.S. Court of Appeals Case No:  18-3227
   U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri - St. Louis   
   [PUBLISHED] [Erickson, Author, with Loken and Kelly, Circuit Judge] 
   Criminal case - Sentencing. When confronted with disputed fact issues at 
   sentencing, the district court may rely on relevant hearsay evidence and 
   other evidence that is inadmissible under the rules of evidence so long as 
   the evidence possesses sufficient indicia of reliability to support its 
   probable accuracy; the objected-to hearsay in this case had such indicia, 
   as it was corroborated by a host of other evidence, and the district court 
   did not err in relying on it as part of the evidence used to calculate 
   drug quantity; the district court's decision to deny a downward departure 
   under Guidelines Sec. 5H1.6 was unreviewable in the absence of evidence 
   that the court had an unconstitutional motive or thought it lacked 
   authority to grant the departure; the district court did not abuse its 
   discretion by denying defendant's motion for a downward variance.