153194P.pdf   06/27/2016  United States  v.  Adrian Lomas
   U.S. Court of Appeals Case No:  15-3194
   U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Iowa - Davenport   
   [PUBLISHED] [Wollman, Author, with Riley, Chief Judge, and Murphy, Circuit 
   Judge] 
   Criminal case - Criminal law and sentencing. No error in admitting 
   evidence that defendant had discarded a gun several weeks before the bank 
   robbery involved here as it went to explain why he was seeking a gun 
   shortly before the robbery, and the district court gave a proper limiting 
   instructions concerning the testimony; the court properly instructed the 
   jury to disregard a police officer's comments about a "shots fired" report 
   and no mistrial was required; hearsay challenges rejected; any error in 
   admitting a police officer's testimony regarding the likely meaning of 
   certain terms in defendant's text messages was harmless in light of other 
   evidence regarding the language and the overwhelming evidence that 
   defendant committed the robbery while displaying an imitation firearm; any 
   error in sentencing defendant under the career-offender provision was 
   harmless in light of the court's alternative findings with respect to the 
   appropriate sentence.