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211016P.pdf 04/20/2022 United States v. Junior Roldan Marin
U.S. Court of Appeals Case No: 21-1016
U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Iowa - Eastern
[PUBLISHED] [Benton, Author, with Chief Judge Smith and Judge Wollman,
Circuit Judges]
Criminal Case Conviction and Sentence. Sufficient evidence was presented
that Roldan-Marin knew he possessed a firearm while he knowingly was
subject to a no-contact order involving an intimate partner that was
issued after a hearing where he had an opportunity to participate: the
no-contact order showed he met the federal definition of intimate
partnership; the district court did not plainly err in establishing he had
the opportunity to participate; the no-contact order was presumed to be in
effect; and the documents showed the no-contact order remained in effect.
Because there was sufficient evidence he was a prohibited person under
section 922(g)(8), there is no need to address other categories of
prohibited persons. The prosecutor misstated the law about the presumption
of innocence, but defendant did not object. Under plain error review, the
improper remark did not prejudice his rights to obtain a fair trial, as
there was a single misstatement, the evidence against defendant was
strong, the district court made a curative instruction, and no exceptional
circumstances warrant reversal. Any error that the district court may have
made by increasing the base offense level because a prior Iowa assault
conviction was not a crime of violence was harmless error.