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052420P.pdf   05/01/2006  USA  v.  Ben Mullins
   U.S. Court of Appeals Case No:  05-2420
   Western District of Missouri   
   [PUBLISHED] [Colloton, Author, with Melloy and Benton, Circuit Judges]
   Criminal case - criminal law. Evidence was sufficient to establish that
   the starter pistol defendant possessed met the statutory definition of a
   firearm; prosecutor's closing arguments did not deprive defendant of a
   fair trial; claim that district court cannot enhance a sentence based on
   facts of prior convictions that were neither proved beyond a reasonable
   doubt nor admitted by defendant is foreclosed by this court's precedents.