192209P.pdf   02/11/2021  United States  v.  Shelton Oliver
   U.S. Court of Appeals Case No:  19-2209
   U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Iowa - Sioux City   
   [PUBLISHED] Kelly, Author, with Wollman and Stras, Circuit Judges] 
   Criminal case - Criminal law and sentencing. Claims that the cumulative 
   effect of several alleged trial errors - the admission of certain map 
   exhibits, the submission of an unadmitted exhibit to the jury, the 
   prosecutor's leading questions to a government witness and the admission 
   of firearm evidence - deprived defendant of his Sixth Amendment right to a 
   fair trial on these drug trafficking charges rejected; the government's 
   Section 851 notice gave defendant adequate notice of the government's 
   intent to reply on particular prior convictions and a meaningful 
   opportunity to he heard, and the notice's failure to cite the proper 
   statutory provision did not require a remand for resentencing under this 
   court's precedents; however, the government failed to prove beyond a 
   reasonable doubt that defendant's 2006 Illinois drug conviction qualified 
   as a serious drug felony for purposes of applying the 25-year mandatory 
   minimum sentence set forth in 21 U.S.C. Sec. 841(b)(1)(A); remanded for 
   resentencing based on the existing record.