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201511P.pdf 10/18/2021 United States v. Christopher Martin
U.S. Court of Appeals Case No: 20-1511
U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Iowa - Eastern
[PUBLISHED] [Kobes, Author, with Loken and Grasz, Circuit Judges]
Criminal case - Criminal law and sentencing. For the court's previous
opinion in the matter, see U.S. v. Martin, 999 F.3d 636 (8th Cir. 2021),
reh'g granted and opinion vacated (August 3, 2021). The police had at
least reasonable suspicion to stop the vehicle in which defendant was
riding based on the information they had concerning a robbery and the
behavior of the car's occupants; any error in denying as moot defendant's
objection to evidence of a show-up was harmless after the government
stated it did not intend to use the evidence at trial, since the
government's representation dissipated any reasonable concern that the
evidence would be introduced, and nothing in the court's ruling prevented
defendant from raising the objection at trial, if necessary; Illinois
armed robbery qualifies as generic robbery under the enumerated offense
clause of Guidelines Sec. 4B1.2(a)(2), and the district court did not err
in imposing the career offender enhancement.