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   Federal Courts - 11th Circuit Court of Appeals - March 28, 2006

  
El-Amin v. United States, No. 05-12796 Non-Argument Calendar, UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE ELEVENTH CIRCUIT, March 28, 2006, Filed
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Overview: The decision of the district court denying a pro se federal inmate's Fed. R. Civ. P. 60(b) motion was remanded because it should have been dismissed by the district court for lack of jurisdiction since the motion was a second or successive 28 U.S.C.S. § 2255 motion, and the inmate had not received authorization to file a successive motion.

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Hoyer v. Hunter, No. 05-14708 Non-Argument Calendar, UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE ELEVENTH CIRCUIT, March 28, 2006, Decided
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Overview: Denial of a sheriff's motion for new trial was affirmed because he admitted owing the deceased a general duty of care, and if there were error in admitting certain of plaintiff's expert testimony, the district court's jury instructions cured the error, and the testimony was not substantially prejudicial to the sheriff under Fed. R. Civ. P. 61.

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Rivera v. United States AG, No. 05-14609 Non-Argument Calendar, UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE ELEVENTH CIRCUIT, March 28, 2006, Decided
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Overview: An alien's petition for review was denied because substantial evidence supported the denial of her application for asylum. The alien did not suffer from past persecution and did not have a well-founded fear of future persecution. The alien's withholding of removal claim failed also failed, and she did not show that she was entitled to CAT relief.

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United States v. Carlisle, No. 05-12091 Non-Argument Calendar, UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE ELEVENTH CIRCUIT, March 28, 2006, Decided , March 28, 2006, Filed
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Overview: District court did not abuse its discretion when it admitted the testimony of defendant's wife that defendant previously possessed a firearm under Fed. R. Evid. 404(b) because the evidence of defendant's prior possession of the gun was admissible since it showed intent to possess the gun.

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United States v. Fasanelli, No. 04-13840, UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE ELEVENTH CIRCUIT, March 28, 2006, Decided , March 28, 2006, Filed
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Overview: Defendant challenged the admission of a prior arrest and plea on an unrelated drug charge, but the court concluded that this evidence was properly admitted as evidence of intent under Fed. R. Evid. 404(b) because defendant put his intent at issue by pleading not guilty.

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United States v. Garrett, No. 04-15882 Non-Argument Calendar, UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE ELEVENTH CIRCUIT, March 28, 2006, Decided
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Overview: Although court of appeals found that district court erred when it imposed mandatory sentence under USSG on defendant who maintained a drug establishment, in violation of 21 U.S.C.S. § 856(a)(2), it affirmed defendant's sentence because he did not show that district court would have imposed a lower sentence if it had known Guidelines were advisory.

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United States v. Ledbetter, No. 05-16310 Non-Argument Calendar, UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE ELEVENTH CIRCUIT, March 28, 2006, Decided
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Overview: Defendant's sentence was vacated and remanded for resentencing since the government breached the plea agreement by promising to recommend a three-level enhancement under U.S. Sentencing Guidelines Manual § 3A1.2(a), but later adopting a U.S. Sentencing Guidelines Manual § 3A1.2(b)'s six-level increase resulting in a longer sentence.

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United States v. Pritchett, No. 05-15532 Non-Argument Calendar, UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE ELEVENTH CIRCUIT, March 28, 2006, Decided , March 28, 2006, Filed
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United States v. Singer, No. 03-15801 Non-Argument Calendar, UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE ELEVENTH CIRCUIT, March 28, 2006, Decided , March 28, 2006, Filed
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Overview: A decision affirming defendant's sentence for conspiracy to commit bank fraud was reinstated after reconsideration in light of Booker because defendant was deemed to have abandoned his challenge to his sentence under Apprendi and its progeny by failing to timely raise the issue in his appellate brief.

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Washington v. United States, No. 05-12827 Non-Argument Calendar, UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE ELEVENTH CIRCUIT, March 28, 2006, Decided , March 28, 2006, Filed
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Overview: Inmate's "emergency motion to compel specific performance of plea agreement" was properly determined to be a successive 28 U.S.C.S. § 2255 motion where it advanced same argument and sought same relief as first § 2255 motion, and motion was properly dismissed where inmate failed to obtain authorization required by 28 U.S.C.S. § 2244(b)(3)(A).

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