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213830P.pdf 06/12/2023 United States v. Patrick Webb, Jr.
U.S. Court of Appeals Case No: 21-3830
U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Iowa - Eastern
[PUBLISHED] [Smith, Author, with Arnold and Stras, Circuit Judges]
Criminal case - Criminal law and Sentencing. The doctrine of invited error
bars defendant's argument that the district court constructively amended
the indictment by giving an instruction that separated the element of
protected location from the other elements of the offense of distributing
a controlled substance near a protected location; it also bars defendant's
claim the court erred by failing to give a complete entrapment defense;
counsel's failure to object to the instructions had no discernible effect
on the trial verdict, and defendant's claim of ineffective assistance of
counsel is rejected; the argument that application of U.S. v. Henderson,
11 Fed. 4th 713 (8th Cir. 2021), which was issued after the first PSR was
prepared but before sentencing, to determine whether defendant was a
career offender was procedural error rejected - see U.S. v. Evans, 63
F.4th 1157 (8th Cir. 2023); the district court's comments concerning the
ice methamphetamine guidelines did not establish that the court treated
the guidelines as mandatory; defendant's sentence, a downward variance,
was not substantively unreasonable.