072920P.pdf   07/07/2008  United States  v.  Tron Kent
   U.S. Court of Appeals Case No:  07-2920
   U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri - Cape Girardeau   
   [PUBLISHED] [Benton, Author, with Arnold and Murphy, Circuit Judges]
   Criminal case - criminal law and sentencing. Police officers had a
   reasonable suspicion that defendant was carrying a gun, and they were
   justified in drawing their weapons and frisking defendant when he
   disobeyed their commands and tried to walk away; in a separate incident
   officers knew there was an arrest warrant for defendant, and the officers
   had reasonable suspicion to stop his vehicle in order to determine if he
   was, in fact, the driver of the car; no error in admitting evidence of prior
   convictions; no error in admitting DNA evidence to tie defendant to a bag
   of drugs; evidence was sufficient to support drug, firearms and child
   pornography convictions; Jury instruction on possession of a firearm
   while trafficking, while erroneous, did not entitle defendant to plain
   error relief; mandatory life sentence did not constitute cruel and
   unusual punishment in violation of the Eighth Amendment.