102533P.pdf   07/14/2011  United States  v.  Nathaniel J. Smith
   U.S. Court of Appeals Case No:  10-2533
   U.S. District Court for the District of Minnesota - St. Paul   
   [PUBLISHED] [Loken, Author, with Melloy and Shepherd, Circuit Judges]
   Criminal case - Criminal law and sentencing. Having acquired
   reasonable, articulable suspicion that defendant was in possession of drugs
   and a gun, the officer was permitted to diligently pursue the investigation
   to determine whether there were grounds to detain defendant, and her
   actions in asking defendant to consent to a search were reasonable; when
   defendant refused, the officer could briefly detain defendant to permit a
   drug dog sniff; officer safety concerns justified handcuffing defendant and
   placing him a police cruiser after he became agitated; no error in
   sentencing defendant as an armed career criminal based on his Minnesota
   conviction for third-degree attempted burglary.