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171982P.pdf   04/30/2018  United States  v.  Donavan Cross
   U.S. Court of Appeals Case No:  17-1982
   U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Iowa - Sioux City   
[PUBLISHED] [Loken, Author, with Wollman and Murphy, Circuit Judges] Criminal case - Criminal law and sentencing. The police officers reasonably believed defendant's girlfriend had apparent authority to consent to their entry in the house with her while she gathered her belongings and that their entry with the girlfriend was directly related to the entry defendant's grandmother authorized when she called the police for assistance with a domestic dispute between defendant and his girlfriend; the gun found while the girlfriend was gathering her effects was admissible; the district court did not err in admitting a recording of a jailhouse call between defendant and his girlfriend as its probative value (defendant's attempt to get her to claim ownership) outweighed any possible prejudice; evidence was sufficient to support defendant's conviction for being a prohibited person in possession of a firearm; no error in considering jailhouse calls and grand jury testimony at the sentencing proceeding in determining defendant was a habitual domestic abuser with a history of displaying weapons; no error in finding defendant was such an abuser; 120-month sentence was not substantively unreasonable given the aggravating factors in the case, including defendant's history of violence and domestic abuse.