133253P.pdf   03/25/2015  United States  v.  Fred Robinson
   U.S. Court of Appeals Case No:  13-3253
   U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri - St. Louis   
   [PUBLISHED] [Benton, Author, with Wollman and Colloton, Circuit Judges] 
   Criminal case - Criminal law. Agents could reasonably rely on binding 
   Supreme Court precedents permitting them to attach a tracking device to 
   defendant's vehicle at the time they did so, and the GPS evidence in the 
   case was properly admitted; counts alleging two different schemes for 
   federal programs theft were not misjoined, as the evidence overlapped and 
   evidence from each scheme would have been admissible in the separate trial 
   of the other scheme; further, the court instructed the jury that each 
   offense was a separate or different crime, thereby minimizing any 
   prejudice; Batson claim rejected; instructions on theft concerning 
   programs receiving federal funds were not erroneous, and the court 
   properly rejected defendant's proposed instructions as they did not 
   correctly state the applicable law; evidence was sufficient to support 
   defendant's conviction for accepting wages for work not performed at his 
   parking meter inspection job for the City of St. Louis as he was agent of 
   the City government which received federal funds; below-Guidelines 
   sentence was substantively reasonable; restitution order was not an abuse 
   of discretion.