DISCLAIMER:  Any unofficial case summaries below are prepared by the clerk's office
                        as a courtesy to the reader. They are not part of the opinion of the court.

043123P.pdf   07/26/2005  USA  v.  Robert D. Strong
   U.S. Court of Appeals Case No:  04-3123
                          and No:  04-3228
   Eastern District of Missouri   
   [PUBLISHED] [Smith, Author, with Loken, Chief Judge and Beam, 
   Circuit Judge] 
   Criminal case - criminal law. In prosecution for felon in possession of 
   a firearm, district court did not err in admitting evidence of defendant's 
   1987 robbery and firearms convictions, as the evidence was admissible 
   under 404(b) because it was material and involved an incident similar in 
   kind and not too remote in time; further, the district court gave a proper 
   limiting instruction, minimizing any prejudice; district court erred in not 
   sentencing defendant as an armed career criminal, as his prior offenses 
   were violent felonies which met the requirements for such a sentence.