United States v. Shahid R. Pratt

BEAM, Circuit Judge.

Shahid R. Pratt, a felon, entered a conditional plea of guilty to possessing ammunition in violation of 18 U.S.C. §§ 922(g)(1) and 924(a)(2). In so doing, he preserved the right to appeal the district court’s 1 denial of his suppression motion. Pratt now exercises that right. We affirm.

I. BACKGROUND

Officers Gary Snyder and Anthony Mel-kowski happened upon Pratt while on routine patrol in a marked police cruiser at around nine-o’clock on the evening of March 15, 2002, in Kansas City, Missouri. Pratt was walking eastbound in the middle of 43rd Street, near Tracy Avenue, even…