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Before Boudin, Stahl and Howard, Circuit Judges.

Pedro Michael Goncalves appeals from his conviction on drug and gun counts and from his sentence. The appeal presents two issues of some significance–one relating to the search of a car parked in a driveway and the other to the Fair Sentencing Act of 2010, Pub. L. No. 111-220, 124 Stat. 2372–and a host of other claims that require little time to resolve. We begin with a bare sketch of the background events and proceedings, reserving factual detail for the discussion of specific claims.

In February 2006, a confidential informant told Scott Sullivan–a Pawtucket Police Detective working with a joint FBI/Rhode Island state police task force–that Goncalves was selling large amounts of crack cocaine in the Providence and Pawtucket areas. The informant reported that Goncalves used a third-floor apartment at 83-85 Pomona Avenue in Providence to store and distribute crack; kept additional crack in his bedroom at his mother’s house at 406 West Avenue in Pawtucket; used a white 1998 Lincoln Continental for drug deliveries; and was armed with a semi-automatic handgun.

 
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