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Appellate Case: 24-2057 Document: 69-1 Date Filed: 08/26/2025 Page: 1 FILED United States Court of Appeals PUBLISH Tenth Circuit UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS August 26, 2025

MEMORANDUM OPINION & ORDER GREGORY F. VAN TATENHOVE, District Judge. Magistrate Judge Robert Wier recommends denying Defendant Donald Demil *690Clay’s motion to suppress certain evidence of cocaine trafficking and firearms offenses discovered by Frankfort police during a search of Clay’s apartment. [R. 31]. Clay objects to the Recommendation on

ORDER In May 2009 and again in June 2011, an informant wearing a concealed camera and microphone purchased crack cocaine from Ali Clay while surveillance agents watched. Both of these transactions occurred in Chicago, but in between Clay lived outside Illinois for 13 months. Clay was arrested immediately following the 2011 transaction *532and confessed to extensive drug sales s

677 F.3d 753 (2012) UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Gary CLAY, Defendant-Appellant. No. 09-5568. United States Court of Appeals, Sixth Circuit. April 19, 2012. Before: MOORE and KETHLEDGE, Circuit Judges; MARBLEY, District Judge.[*] ORDER The court having received a petition for rehearing en banc, and the petition

KETHLEDGE, Circuit Judge, dissenting. Every trial presents its own field of maneuver, with issues rising up in different places on the terrain. Some issues *703reach commanding heights, others are just a gentle rise; some have evidence arrayed densely on each side, others have evidence more thin. Whatever the layout, the district court knows the ground

646 F.3d 1124 (2011) UNITED STATES of America, Appellee, v. Michael Anthony CLAY, Appellant. No. 11-1177. United States Court of Appeals, Eighth Circuit. Submitted: June 17, 2011. Filed: July 28, 2011. *1125 John P. Messina, AFPD, Des Moines, IA, for appellant. Mary Clare Luxa, AUSA, Des Moines, LA, for ap

627 F.3d 959 (2010) UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. James Jesse CLAY, Defendant-Appellant. No. 09-4572. United States Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit. Argued: September 22, 2010. Decided: December 8, 2010. *961 ARGUED: Matthew Segal, Federal Defenders of Western North Carolina, Inc., Asheville,

622 F.3d 892 (2010) UNITED STATES of America, Appellee, v. Donnale C. CLAY, Appellant. No. 10-1222. United States Court of Appeals, Eighth Circuit. Submitted: September 24, 2010. Filed: October 8, 2010. *893 David E. Mullin, Cedar Rapids, IA, for appellant. Daniel A. Chatham, AUSA, Cedar Rapids, IA, for ap

618 F.3d 946 (2010) UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Alvin CLAY, Defendant-Appellant. No. 09-3134. United States Court of Appeals, Eighth Circuit. Submitted: April 16, 2010. Filed: August 27, 2010. *948 Shirley Baccus-Lobel, argued, Dallas, TX, for appellant. Steven Northup Snyder Sr., AUSA

707 F.Supp.2d 963 (2010) UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff, v. Michael Anthony CLAY, Defendant. No. 4:09-cr-00182-JEG. United States District Court, S.D. Iowa, Central Division. April 14, 2010. *964 Mary C. Luxa, U.S. Attorney's Office, Des Moines, IA, for Plaintiff. Nicholas Todd Drees, Federal Public Defenders Office,

579 F.3d 919 (2009) UNITED STATES of America, Appellee, v. Vertis CLAY, Appellant. *920 United States of America, Appellee, v. Calvin Stovall, Appellant. Nos. 08-1372, 08-2371. United States Court of Appeals, Eighth Circuit. Submitted: February 12, 2009. Filed: September 4, 2009.

524 F.3d 877 (2008) UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Anthony Dion CLAY, Defendant-Appellant. No. 07-3050. United States Court of Appeals, Eighth Circuit. Submitted: April 15, 2008. Filed: May 7, 2008. Rehearing Denied May 28, 2008. Forest David Eastman, argued, Clear Lake, IA, for appellant. Patrick J. Reinert

521 F.Supp.2d 633 (2007) UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff, v. David CLAY, Defendant. No. 1:07-cr-178. United States District Court, W.D. Michigan, Southern Division. October 18, 2007. *634 *635 *636 Mark Courtade, AUSA, Grand Rapids, MI, for Plaintiff.</

Judge BAKER delivered the opinion of the Court. Appellant was tried by a general court-martial composed of officer and enlisted members. Contrary to his pleas, he was convicted of one specification of rape and two specifications of indecent assault in violation of Articles 120 and 134, Uniform Code of Military Ju

*216 EMILIO M. GARZA, Circuit Judge: Louisiana parolee Titus Clay absconded from supervision in 2002. After obtaining a warrant for Clay’s arrest, Probation and Parole Officer Randy Rabb received a tip that Clay was at the St. Charles Apartments in Bossier City, Louisiana. When Rabb and a team of officers

ORDER Defendants Jerry Clay (Case No. OS-5169) and Timothy Baldridge (Case No. 03-5456) appeal the sentences imposed upon their pleas of guilty to interfering with commerce by threats or violence in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 1951 and brandishing a firearm during a crime of violence in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 924(c). This court ordered the cases consolidated for briefing and submission. The parties have waived oral argument. U

RECOMMENDED FOR FULL-TEXT PUBLICATION Pursuant to Sixth Circuit Rule 206 2 United States v. Clay No. 02-1362 ELECTRONIC CITATION: 2003 FED App. 0352P (6th Cir.) File Name: 03a0352p.06 Patricia C. Uetz, ASSISTANT UNITED STATES ATTORNEY, Grand Rapids, Michigan, for Appellee. UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS

MEMORANDUM * The district court properly considered the evidence in question as relevant direct evidence of Clay’s knowledge that the identity he proffered on his passport application was false. See United States v. Ramirez-Jiminez, 967 F.2d 1321, 1326 (9th Cir.1992) (“When offered to prove knowledge ... the prior act need not be similar to the charged act as long as the prior act was one which wo

MEMORANDUM ** Jerry Jerome Clay’s conviction pursuant to 21 U.S.C. § 841 does not violate the Constitution. United States v. Buckland, 289 F.3d 558, 564 (9th Cir.2002) (en banc) cert. denied — U.S. -, 122 S.Ct. 2314, 152 L.Ed.2d 1067 (May 28, 2002). To the extent that the district court erred in not instructing the jury that it was required to find a specific amount of

MEMORANDUM ** Tyeshon Clay appeals his guilty plea conviction and 84-month sentence for armed bank robbery and attempted bank robbery, in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 2113(a) and (d). We have jurisdiction pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 1291, and we affirm. Clay contends that his guilty plea must be set aside because the district court inadequately explained the nature of his bank robbery charges,