102911P.pdf   08/05/2011  United States  v.  Michael Wesley
   U.S. Court of Appeals Case No:  10-2911
                          and No:  10-2912
                          and No:  10-2914
   U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri - St. Louis   
   [PUBLISHED] [Riley, Author, with Benton and Shepherd, Circuit Judges]
   Criminal case - Criminal law and sentencing. District court did not abuse
   its discretion in admitting evidence of a handgun; however, the court erred
   in admitting evidence that $14,000 in cash was seized from defendant as
   the evidence indicated that money was from an unrelated robbery that the
   court had excluded from evidence; the error could not have had more than
   a slight impact on the case, in light of the overwhelming evidence of
   defendant's guilt, and the admission of the evidence did not require a new
   trial; disparities between defendant's sentence and co-defendants' were
   permissible as they were related to valid distinctions, such as cooperation
   with the government; district court considered the 3553(a) factors in
   determining sentence.