172558P.pdf   02/28/2018  United States  v.  Pierre Watson
   U.S. Court of Appeals Case No:  17-2558
   U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri - St. Louis   
   [PUBLISHED] [[Erickson, Author, with Colloton and Benton, Circuit Judges] 
   Criminal case - Criminal law and sentencing. The evidence was sufficient 
   to support defendant's conviction for possessing an implement suitable for 
   making counterfeit securities in violation of 18 U.S.C. Sec. 513(b); 
   evidence that defendant possessed photocopied checks was sufficient to 
   satisfy the "implement" element of the statute; such checks are 
   particularly suited for use in counterfeiting and qualified as an 
   implement; issue concerning the district court's decision to make 
   defendant's sentence consecutive to a sentence yet to be imposed by the 
   same judge was moot; the district court did not err in denying defendant's 
   motion to withdraw his guilty plea to two counts as his claim that he was 
   confused about what he was pleading to was directly contradicted by the 
   plea colloquy.