153647P.pdf   12/02/2016  United States  v.  Charles James Jones
   U.S. Court of Appeals Case No:  15-3647
   U.S. District Court for the District of Minnesota - St. Paul   
   [PUBLISHED] [Murphy, Author, with Gruender and Shepherd, Circuit Judges] 
   Criminal case - Criminal law and sentencing. Standard for review for the 
   district court's decision to strictly limit defendant's fire 
   investigator's testimony to the opinions he provided in his final report 
   disclosure under Fed. R. Crim. P. 16(b)(1)(C) is whether the decision was 
   an abuse of discretion; the district court did not abuse its discretion by 
   excluding the expert's proposed testimony about deficiencies in the 
   government expert's investigation and his cognitive bias as these matters 
   were not disclosed in the final report as required by the Rule; no error 
   in denying defendant's motion to suppress statements he made to police 
   officers while they were investigating an on-going fire, as the statements 
   were either admissible under the public safety exception to Miranda or 
   were not statements that would have a significant impact on the jury 
   verdict; the court could not say that defendant's statements were not 
   voluntary even though he had been intoxicated by a prescription drug; 
   officer's request for a clarification of a voluntarily-made statement was 
   not an interrogation; defendant's unprovoked and spontaneous statement at 
   the station house was admissible; no error in finding the drugged, 
   sleeping victim was a vulnerable victim for purposes of the application of 
   Guidelines Sec. 3A1.1(b)(1)