103621P.pdf   03/14/2012  United States  v.  Yusef Stroud
   U.S. Court of Appeals Case No:  10-3621
                          and No:  11-2119
   U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri - St. Louis   
   [PUBLISHED] [Wollman, Author, with Melloy and Colloton, Circuit Judges]
   Criminal case - Criminal law and sentencing. Claim of vindictive
   prosecution rejected as there was no objective evidence for defendant's
   claim that this prosecution was brought to punish him for filing a Section
   1983 action against the arresting officers, and the time line in the case did
   not raise a presumption of vindictiveness; district court did not abuse its
   discretion by limiting defendant's cross-examination of one of the
   arresting officers; no error in admitting into evidence defendant's prior
   conviction for possession of a machine gun as it was relevant to
   defendant's knowledge and was sufficiently similar and close enough in
   time to meet the court's standard of reasonableness; evidence was
   sufficient to support defendant's conviction for being a felon in possession
   of a firearm; no error in applying an enhancement under Guidelines Sec.
   2K2.1(c) where defendant admitted he used the firearm to kill the victim;
   district court adequately explained the basis for its sentencing decision;
   evidence was not substantively unreasonable; no error in denying motion
   for new trial based on newly discovered evidence.