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191619P.pdf   06/12/2020  United States  v.  Karla Myles
   U.S. Court of Appeals Case No:  19-1619
   U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Iowa - Waterloo   
   [PUBLISHED] [Colloton, Author, with Shepherd and Erickson, Circuit Judges] 
   Criminal case - Criminal law and sentencing. The district court did not 
   err in excluding evidence concerning Myles's defense of duress, as she 
   failed to present sufficient evidence that she faced a present, imminent 
   and impending threat at the time she gave the false grand jury testimony 
   which is the basis for this prosecution; nor did she present sufficient 
   evidence to support a finding that she had no reasonable, legal 
   alternative to giving false testimony; the district court properly applied 
   a cross-reference under Guidelines Sec. 2X3.1 and did not err in 
   calculating defendant's offense level.