182777P.pdf   05/07/2020  United States  v.  Erik Becerra
   U.S. Court of Appeals Case No:  18-2777
   U.S. District Court for the District of Minnesota   
   [PUBLISHED] [Stras, Author, with Loken and Shepherd, Circuit Judges] 
   Criminal case - Criminal law. The statements of the probation officer and 
   the other information officers had about defendant's criminal history and 
   possible drug use, as well as the officers' own observations, gave them 
   probable cause to make a warrantless arrest; request for clarification of 
   defendant's spontaneous statement that there was "something" in his car 
   did not amount to custodial interrogation and defendant's statement was 
   admissible; officers could ask defendant if he had a weapon on his person 
   under the public-safety exception to Miranda; the district court did not 
   err in excluding defendant's proposed testimony that he had found the 
   handgun in his car earlier in the day and was about to hand it over to his 
   probation officer; an innocent motive is not a defense to a 
   felon-in-possession charge, and the testimony was properly excluded; the 
   district court did not err in denying defendant an 
   acceptance-of-responsibility reduction or in finding he was career 
   offender; the court considered defendant's mitigation arguments at 
   sentencing and did not abuse its discretion in imposing a 
   within-guidelines sentence.