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173221P.pdf   01/30/2019  United States  v.  Airrington Sykes
   U.S. Court of Appeals Case No:  17-3221
   U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Iowa - Waterloo   
[PUBLISHED] [Arnold, Author, with Wollman and Benton, Circuit Judges] Criminal case - Criminal law. Under United States v. Pope, 910 F.3d 413 (8th Cir. 2018), a police officer in Iowa may briefly detain someone whom the officer reasonably believes possesses a concealed weapon; a concealed-weapons permit is a an affirmative defense under Iowa Code 724.4(1) and an officer may presume that the suspect is committing a criminal offense until the suspect demonstrates otherwise; based on the information provided the officer and the circumstances presented, the officer had a reasonable suspicion that defendant possessed a gun; defendant's Illinois conviction for aggravated vehicular hijacking, while armed with a firearm, qualified as a crime of violence. See Stokeling v. United States, 2019 WL 189343 (Jan. 15, 2019)