192042P.pdf   02/01/2021  United States  v.  Jerris Blanks
   U.S. Court of Appeals Case No:  19-2042
   U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri - St. Louis   
   [PUBLISHED] [Wollman, Author, with Smith, Chief Judge, and Loken, Circuit 
   Judge] 
   Criminal case - Criminal law. The district court did not abuse its 
   discretion in denying defendant's motion for leave to file post-deadline 
   pretrial motions in light of his knowing and voluntary waiver of his right 
   to do so; defendant knew, at the time he made the waiver, that the court 
   was free to reject his plea agreement and that if it did so, he would not 
   be permitted to re-file this pretrial motions; the district court did not 
   err in admitting a limited number of child pornography images from the 
   more than one thousand images seized from defendant's devices; while the 
   better practice may have been for the court to examine the images before 
   making its Rule 403 ruling on their admissibility, it did not abuse its 
   discretion by making the decision without having done so; the images were 
   neither unfairly prejudicial nor needlessly cumulative.