192487P.pdf   08/25/2020  United States  v.  Cleophus Reed, Jr.
   U.S. Court of Appeals Case No:  19-2487
   U.S. District Court for the District of Minnesota   
   [PUBLISHED] [Kelly, Author, with Erickson and Stras, Circuit Judges] 
   Criminal case - Criminal law and sentencing. Evidence was sufficient to 
   support defendant's convictions for conspiracy to distribute cocaine and 
   crack, possession of heroin and crack with intent to distribute, and being 
   a felon in possession of a firearm; defendant's claim the jury was not 
   representative of a cross-section of the community rejected as defendant 
   did not provide evidence of the racial composition of the jury pool used 
   by the District of Minnesota or even the composition of the potential 
   jurors called for his trial; the district court recognized its authority 
   to vary based on a policy disagreement with the crack cocaine conversion 
   rate, and it did not abuse its discretion by declining to vary downward; 
   defendant's within-Guidelines sentence was substantively reasonable.