First Circuit -- US v. Jones (12/5)

Where a tip comes in on a car, and corroboration establishes that the people most likely to be in the car have been implicated in drug investigations, there's enough reasonable suspicion for a stop.

No de facto arrest upon convergence of multiple vehicles, agents with drawn weapons, and handcuffs.

No clear error in trial court's holding that drugs were in plain sight.

Massachusetts assaulting a police officer statute is a valid predicate for career offender status.

If a deft is resentenced after parole violation, the two sentences are summed for assessing the lookback period for career offender status.

Deft's priors appropriately considered, despite scrivening errors in records.

US v. Jones