041258P.pdf   06/21/2005  USA  v.  James Bell
   U.S. Court of Appeals Case No:  04-1258
   Western District of Missouri   
   [PUBLISHED] [Bowman, Author, with Bye and Melloy, Circuit 
   Judges] 
   Criminal case - Sentencing Guidelines. Where defendant denied prior 
   felony arrest, challenged the evidence against him, insisted his possession 
   of a firearm was justified and showed no remorse until he was convicted, 
   the district court did not err in denying his request for an acceptance-of- 
   responsibility reduction; district court did not err in imposing a four-level 
   increase to defendant's offense level based on a finding that he possessed 
   the firearm in connection with another felony - exhibiting the firearm in a 
   threatening manner; applying Pirani's plain error analysis, defendant was 
   not entitled to Booker relief as he failed to demonstrate a reasonable 
   probability that the district court would have imposed a lesser sentence 
   under an advisory guidelines scheme.