United States v. Louis Kenneth Risken

McMILLIAN, Circuit Judge.

Louis Kenneth Risken appeals from a final judgment entered in the District Court 1 for the Southern District of Iowa upon a jury verdict finding him guilty of two counts of obstruction of justice in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 1503 and two counts of witness tampering in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 1512(a)(1), (2)(A). The district court sentenced appellant to a total of twenty years imprisonment with the provision that appellant would be immediately eligible for parole under 18 U.S.C. § 4205(b)(2).

For reversal appellant argues that (1) the district court erred in denying his…