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092933P.pdf   07/26/2010  United States  v.  Rickey Bates
   U.S. Court of Appeals Case No:  09-2933
   U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri - St. Louis   
   [PUBLISHED] [Melloy, Author, with Loken and Hansen, Circuit Judges]
   Criminal case - Sentencing. For the court's prior opinion in the matter,
   see U.S. v. Bates, 561 F.3d 754 (8th Cir. 2009). District court did not err
   in applying Guidelines Sec. 2K2.1(b)(6) as defendant possessed the
   weapon in question while engaged in a drug-trafficking crime; district
   court properly followed this court's mandate and did not err in taking new
   evidence at the hearing on remand.