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151023P.pdf   04/01/2016  United States  v.  Jerry Scott
   U.S. Court of Appeals Case No:  15-1023
   U.S. District Court for the Western District of Missouri - Kansas City   
[PUBLISHED] [Kelly, Author, with Wollman and Colloton, Circuit Judges] Criminal case - Criminal law and sentencing. The district court did not err in crediting the arresting officer's testimony that he could smell PCP as he approached defendant's vehicle, and the court did not err in denying defendant's motion to suppress the evidence seized in the subsequent search; a second, unrelated search of defendant's vehicle was justified as a protective sweep as the officers had a reasonable suspicion that defendant was armed and dangerous; evidence was sufficient to support defendant's convictions for possession of PCP with intent to distribute and possession of a firearm in furtherance of drug trafficking; evidence was sufficient for a jury to find defendant constructively possessed additional PCP found in the search of a house; even if the district court erred in relying on the residual clause of Guidelines Sec. 4B1.2(a)(2) in determining defendant was a career offender, he had three other convictions which qualified as crimes of violence, and he was properly sentenced as a career offender; 360-month sentence was at the bottom of the applicable advisory guidelines range and was not substantively unreasonable.