151374P.pdf   07/08/2016  United States  v.  Demetrius Colbert
   U.S. Court of Appeals Case No:  15-1374
   U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Arkansas - Little Rock   
   [PUBLISHED] [Wollman, Author, with Melloy and Colloton, Circuit Judges] 
   Criminal case - Criminal law and sentencing. Wiretap application and 
   affidavit used to secure a wiretap met the necessity requirement set out 
   in 18 U.S.C. Sec. 2518(1)9c); search warrant application established a 
   nexus between the address to be searched and defendant's money laundering 
   operation, and the evidence seized during the execution of the warrant was 
   admissible; proposed testimony regarding another raid and search was 
   properly excluded as irrelevant as the two raids were not similar; no 
   error in joining defendant's conspiracy and firearms counts and no error 
   in denying his motion to sever the counts; evidence was sufficient to 
   support defendant's conviction for assaulting a federal officer as there 
   was substantial evidence that defendant was not acting in self defense 
   when he fired at the SWAT team executing the search warrant; no error in 
   imposing a leadership role enhancement under Guidelines Sec. 3B1.1(a) or 
   in calculating the drug quantities involved; sentence was substantively 
   reasonable; a life sentence does not violate the Eighth Amendment's 
   prohibition on cruel and unusual punishment.