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202651P.pdf 07/01/2022 United States v. Caesar Vaca
U.S. Court of Appeals Case No: 20-2651
U.S. District Court for the Western District of Missouri - Kansas City
[PUBLISHED] [Stras, Author, with Loken and Shepherd, Circuit Judges]
Criminal case - Criminal law. Where defendant had told police that he had
never possessed a firearm, the district court did not abuse its discretion
by admitting evidence that defendant had been convicted 20 years earlier
for shooting a pregnant woman, as it was permissible extrinsic evidence to
show he had lied about ever possessing a gun; defendant's sentence, an
upward variance, was not an abuse of the district court's discretion and
was not substantively unreasonable.