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Try CasePortal for FreePer curiam. The Eighth Circuit finds a lower court properly charged a defendant for conspiracy to distribute and possession with intent to distribute meth, cocaine, fentanyl, heroin, and marijuana, as well as engaging in money laundering. The defendant argued that the lower court erred in calculating the amount of drug quantities he possessed and distributed, and that his representation wrongfully allowed him to plead guilty to his crimes without a plea agreement. However, the government sufficiently showed in court that the defendant waived objections to the amount of drugs he possessed, minus marijuana, and that his ineffective counsel claim were not exceptional. Affirmed.