993182P.pdf   03/23/2001  United States  v.  Michael J. Scott
   U.S. Court of Appeals Case No:  99-3182
                          and No:  00-1596
                          and No:  99-3330
   District of Minnesota   
   Criminal case - criminal law. Evidence was sufficient to support 
   drug trafficking conspiracy conviction; court did not abuse its 
   discretion in denying continuance of indefinite duration to secure 
   defense witness whose testimony would have been excluded as 
   relating to a collateral matter; no error in permitting witness to 
   decode audio tapes for jury; no Apprendi violation as supervised 
   release period did not exceed maximum provided in 21 U.S.C. 
   Sec. 841(b)(1)(C); court properly calculated amount of drugs 
   involved; if the criminal activity involved five or more people, 
   a defendant can not receive a two-level adjustment and the district 
   court did not err in rejecting defendant's request for such a 
   compromise adjustment.