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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.