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United States Court of Appeals For the Eighth Circuit ___________________________ No. 22-3108 ___________________________ United States of America lllllllllllllllllllllPlaintiff - Appellee v. Ramon Diego Pacheco lllllllllllllllllllllDefendant - Appellant ____________ Appeal from United States District Court for the District of Minnesota ____________ Submitted: April 26, 2023 Filed: May 5, 2023 [Unpublished] ____________ Before KELLY, ERICKSON, and STRAS, Circuit Judges. ____________ PER CURIAM. Ramon Pacheco received a 198-month prison sentence after a jury found him guilty of conspiring to distribute at least 50 grams of a mixture containing methamphetamine. See
21 U.S.C. §§ 841(a)(1), (b)(1)(B), 846. He asks us to vacate his conviction and sentence because the jury should not have been told about a prior drug conviction, the verdict was against the weight of the evidence, and the district court1 miscalculated how much actual methamphetamine he distributed. We conclude there was no abuse of discretion in admitting the prior conviction or denying a new trial. See United States v. Monds,
945 F.3d 1049, 1052 (8th Cir. 2019) (explaining that prior drug convictions can show “knowledge” and “intent”); United States v. Clayton,
787 F.3d 929, 935 (8th Cir. 2015) (emphasizing that the jury’s verdict should “stand unless the evidence weighs heavily enough against [it] . . . that a miscarriage of justice may have occurred” (quotation marks omitted)). Nor did the district court clearly err in calculating the drug quantity. See United States v. Madison,
863 F.3d 1001, 1006 (8th Cir. 2017) (describing the “well- established” procedure for determining the purity of unrecovered methamphetamine). We accordingly affirm the judgment of the district court. ______________________________ 1 The Honorable Wilhelmina M. Wright, United States District Judge for the District of Minnesota. -2-
Document Info
Docket Number: 22-3108
Filed Date: 5/5/2023
Precedential Status: Non-Precedential
Modified Date: 5/5/2023