United States v. Fonseca, No. 12-3325 (10th Cir. 2014)
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Defendant Scott Fonseca was convicted of possessing stolen firearms and was sentenced to seventy months' imprisonment. On appeal, defendant argued: (1) the district court erred in denying his motion to suppress evidence of the stolen firearms because they were found as the result of a detention that exceeded the permissible scope of a Terry stop; and (2) the district court erred in allowing the government's introduction of certain testimony (which was contrary to the court's grant of defendant's earlier motion in limine, but without a concurrent objection by defendant) that he had previously sold several guns that were stolen at the same time as the eight firearms found as a result of the Terry stop. Finding no reversible error, the Tenth Circuit affirmed defendant's conviction and sentence.
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