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192139P.pdf 10/14/2020 United States v. Tony Reed
U.S. Court of Appeals Case No: 19-2139
U.S. District Court for the District of Minnesota
[PUBLISHED] [Kobes, Author, with Gruender and Wollman, Circuit Judges]
Criminal case - Criminal law and sentencing. The district court did not
err in denying defendant's motion to suppress cell site location
information obtained under the Stored Communications Act, 18 U.S.C. Sec.
2703(d) because at the time law enforcement officers obtained the
information the Supreme Court has not yet decided Carpenter v. United
States, 138 S. Ct. 2206 (2018, holding court orders under Sec. 2703(d)
violated the Fourth Amendment, and the officers acted in reasonable
reliance on the statute as it was not obviously unconstitutional when they
sought the order; the evidence was, therefore admissible under the good
faith exception to the exclusionary rule; no error in admitting evidence
of uncharged robberies as the evidence about them revealed pattern and
routine that helped explain how defendant committed the charged robberies;
evidence of an uncharged Missouri robbery helped show identity and was
admissible; no error in applying an enhancement for obstruction of justice
under Guidelines Sec. 3C1.1 based on the court's determination that
defendant perjured himself at trial and attempted to coach a witness's
testimony.