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974050P.pdf   06/01/1998  United States  v.  Henry R. Valdez
   U.S. Court of Appeals Case No:  97-4050
                          and No:  97-4075
   District of Nebraska   
   Confession was voluntary and properly admitted; limiting instruction
   protected non-confessing defendant who was not named in the
   confession; no error in finding weapon was a short-barreled shotgun
   subjecting them to a minimum ten-year sentence.