221841P.pdf   04/24/2023  United States  v.  Patrick Medearis
   U.S. Court of Appeals Case No:  22-1841
   U.S. District Court for the District of South Dakota - Central   
   [PUBLISHED] [Kobes, Author, with Loken and Erickson, Circuit Judges] 
   Criminal case - Criminal law and Sentencing. The totality of the 
   circumstances showed defendant voluntarily and knowingly waived his 
   Miranda rights; defendant knowingly possessed firearms and the admission 
   of hearsay involving his possession of a firearm was harmless in light of 
   all of the evidence, including defendant's own statements, showing 
   possession; the district court did not abuse its discretion in admitting 
   evidence of a second flight from police as it was valid evidence 
   supporting an inference of guilt; defendant's prior conviction for 
   conspiracy to distribute a controlled substance in violation of 21 U.S.C. 
   Sec. 846 was a controlled substance offense for purposes of his base 
   offense level, and his conviction for assaulting, opposing, resisting, and 
   impeding a federal officer in violation of 18 U.S.C. Sec. 111(a) and (b) 
   was a crime of violence for purposes of Guidelines Sec. 2K2.1(a)(2).