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182393P.pdf 06/25/2019 United States v. Kalil Dunn
U.S. Court of Appeals Case No: 18-2393
U.S. District Court for the District of Minnesota - St. Paul
[PUBLISHED] [Shepherd, Author, with Erickson and Kobes, Circuit Judges]
Criminal case - Criminal law and sentencing. Police officers followed the
city's policy allowing the police to tow and impound a vehicle that is
impeding traffic when the owner cannot immediately remove the vehicle on
his own, and the inventory search performed prior to the impound was
reasonable and valid; in a separate incident, drugs seen in plain view on
a car's dashboard provided officers with probable cause to conduct the
search of defendant's vehicle; the district court did not err in finding
credible the testimony of the officer who spotted the drugs;
bottom-of-the-guidelines range sentence was not substantively
unreasonable; the district court acknowledged defendant's mitigating
circumstances and did not err in determining they were outweighed by other
3553(a) factors.