171914P.pdf   08/30/2018  United States  v.  Kyle Parks
   U.S. Court of Appeals Case No:  17-1914
   U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri - St. Louis   
   [PUBLISHED] [Wollman, Author, with Smith, Chief Judge, and Loken, Circuit 
   Judge] 
   Criminal case - Criminal law. Where police were aware that a young girl, 
   supposedly in defendant's custody, was missing, the search of defendant's 
   van was warranted under the community-caretaker exception; the officer 
   developed probable cause to search the van under the automobile warrant 
   exception when he opened the van door, smelled and saw marijuana and 
   discovered a comatose young woman; in this prosecution for transportation 
   of minors to engage in prostitution, the district court did not err in 
   admitting evidence that defendant had asked two of the women to have sex 
   with him and provided drugs to them; the testimony was properly admitted 
   as res gestae evidence which provided context to the prostitution crimes 
   with which defendant was charged; the probative value of the evidence 
   outweighed the danger of prejudice because the evidence showed defendant's 
   intent to solicit, entice and maintain the women so that they would engage 
   in commercial sex acts; the evidence was sufficient to support defendant's 
   convictions for bringing women from Ohio to Missouri for the purpose of 
   prostitution.