181445P.pdf   02/27/2020  United States  v.  Kelvin Williams
   U.S. Court of Appeals Case No:  18-1445
   U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri - St. Louis   
   [PUBLISHED] [Kobes, Author, with Gruender and Stras, Circuit Judges] 
   Criminal case - Criminal law. When police entered the house, the scene of 
   a home break-in, and saw firearms and drugs strewn on the floor, they were 
   entitled to seize the evidence under the plain view doctrine, and the 
   district court properly denied defendant's motion to suppress the 
   evidence; the district court did not err in denying defendant's motion to 
   dismiss premised on a theory that the government intentionally destroyed 
   or altered exculpatory evidence on his home security DVR as there was no 
   evidence the government deleted any evidence from the system, let alone 
   exculpatory evidence; nor was there any evidence the police tampered with 
   the recorded images; defendant validly waived his right to a jury trial; 
   under the facts presented the district court did not err in denying 
   defendant's motion to proceed pro se, which was made on the morning of 
   trial.