Brien v. United States

How courts have described this case

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• explaining that evidence must be viewed “in the light most favorable to the government,” drawing all inferences and deciding all issues of credibility in the government’s favor
• “[I]f Congress uses a common-law term in a federal criminal statute without defining it, we must presume that Congress adopted the common-law definition of that term.”
• gun stored underneath change dish between front car seats during drug sale from car was not ‘used’ because it was- not fired, was not visible, and was not mentioned

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