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222604P.pdf 08/10/2023 United States v. Montgomery Lebeau
U.S. Court of Appeals Case No: 22-2604
U.S. District Court for the District of South Dakota - Western
[PUBLISHED] [Colloton, Author, with Wollman and Benton, Circuit Judges]
Criminal case - Criminal law and Sentencing. The district court did not
err in admitting recordings of the 911 call that caused police to respond
as they were highly probative, as they tended to show defendant possessed
a firearm and provided context in which the alleged firearm possession
occurred; the district court minimized the risk of unfair prejudice by
giving a cautionary instruction on use of the recordings; the court did
not err in admitting the caller's testimony as it was not needlessly
cumulative of the recordings and went to the ultimate issue in the case -
defendant's possession of the firearm; the district court did not plainly
err in refusing to make the sentence in this case concurrent to any future
sentence defendant received in a related assault case, as the under the
current law, it was not obvious that the state term was "anticipated" as
required by Sec. 5G1.3(c) of the Guidelines; defendant's sentence was not
substantively unreasonable.