102747P.pdf   09/01/2011  United States  v.  Patricia Brown
   U.S. Court of Appeals Case No:  10-2747
   U.S. District Court for the District of Minnesota - St. Paul   
   [PUBLISHED] [Loken, Author, with Beam and Gruender, Circuit Judges]
   Criminal case - Criminal law. The victim age provisions of 18 U.S.C.
   Sec. 3559(f) are sentencing factors, not elements of the offense, and the
   district court did not commit plain error in imposing the minimum thirty-
   year sentence for second degree murder of a child under the age of 18
   mandated by the statute; district court did not err in denying motion to
   suppress brass knuckles and a knife seized from defendant's vehicle as the
   officer saw them through the car's window, and the illegal and
   incriminating nature of the items was immediately apparent, giving the
   officer probable cause to enter the vehicle without a warrant and seize the
   weapons; no error in denying motion to sever murder and assault charges.