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153651P.pdf   11/22/2016  United States  v.  Cartez Lamar Cook
   U.S. Court of Appeals Case No:  15-3651
   U.S. District Court for the District of Minnesota - St. Paul   
[PUBLISHED] [Murphy, Author, with Gruender and Shepherd, Circuit Judges] Criminal case - Criminal case. A reasonable person seeing the police car's lights - which had been activated in a distinctive wig wag pattern different from full emergency lights - would have thought he was still at liberty to ignore the police presence and go about his business, and officers did not seize defendant by approaching his parked car; defendant was only seized after he voluntarily rolled down his window and police smelled marijuana; no error in admitting circumstantial evidence which connected defendant to a shooting death involving the gun seized from his vehicle as the evidence was highly probative of defendant's possession of the firearm.