Case Name: UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Scott A. THOMPSON, Defendant-Appellant
Court: United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit
Jurisdiction: United States
Decision Date: 2010-03-30
Citations: 371 F. App'x 54
Docket Number: No. 09-12408
Parties: UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Scott A. THOMPSON, Defendant-Appellant.
Judges: Before CARNES, ANDERSON and STAHL, Circuit Judges.
Reporter: West's Federal Appendix
Volume: 371
Pages: 54–55

Head Matter:
UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Scott A. THOMPSON, Defendant-Appellant.
No. 09-12408.
United States Court of Appeals, Eleventh Circuit.
March 30, 2010.
Phillip Dirosa, Ft Lauderdale, FL, Anne R. Schultz, Kathleen M. Salyer, Jeanne Marie Mullenhoff, U.S. Attorney’s Office, Miami, FL, for Plaintiff-Appellee.
Fred Haddad, Fred Haddad, P.A., Fort Lauderdale, FL, for Defendant-Appellant.
Before CARNES, ANDERSON and STAHL, Circuit Judges.
Honorable Norman H. Stahl, United States Circuit Judge for the First Circuit, sitting by designation.

Opinion:
PER CURIAM:
Having considered the briefs and heard oral argument in this appeal, we readily conclude that the conviction and sentence are due to be affirmed. The record on appeal that is before us does not disclose that the evidence Appellant Thompson contends should have been suppressed was actually admitted against him at the trial. The burden is on the appellant to put before this Court a sufficient record to establish the predicate for his contentions on appeal, and Thompson has not done that.
We add one more point about the text messages that Thompson contends were belatedly obtained from the LG cell phone. Even if we were to go beyond the record and assume that those text messages were admitted at trial, and further assume that the parties' representations about the other evidence admitted at trial are true, it is clear that any error in admitting the LG cell phone text messages was harmless beyond a reasonable doubt.
AFFIRMED.