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082454P.pdf   05/28/2009  United States  v.  Joseph Pulliam
   U.S. Court of Appeals Case No:  08-2454
                          and No:  08-2986
   U.S. District Court for the Western District of Missouri - Springfield   
   [PUBLISHED] [Wollman, Author, with Loken, Chief Judge, and
   Shepherd, Circuit Judge]
   Criminal case - Criminal law and sentencing. District court did not
   abuse its discretion in denying defendant's motion for new trial based on
   a claim that the government withheld impeachment evidence concerning
   a contact the arresting officer had with defendant's parole officer before
   the arrest, as the proposed impeachment would have had little or no
   impact on the outcome of the trial; Missouri's crime of unlawful use of a
   weapon meets the statutory definition of violent felony in 18 U.S.C. Sec.
   924(e)(2)(B)(I), and the district court did not err in using the conviction
   to determine that defendant qualified for sentencing as an armed career
   criminal.