Floyd D. Parker v. United States

How courts have described this case

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• indicating that the instruction “has been criticized frequently as superfluous and potentially confusing”
• rejecting the contention that eyewitness testimony will not suffice to establish that an object is a gun unless “it [was] given by persons knowledgeable about firearms who had an opportunity to examine the weapon closely”
• upholding a conviction under § 924(c) when the gun was never recovered and the only evidence offered by the government was the testimony of two bank employees that the defendant had carried a gun and that he had threatened to “ ‘[b]low [their] ... head[s] off ”
• “[T]he use of an unloaded gun to rob a bank would be a very hazardous venture for the robber.” (quotation marks omitted)
• testimony of two witnesses sufficient for a jury to reasonably find that object used in the commission of a crime was a firearm
• testimony of two witnesses sufficient for a jury to reasonably find that object used in the commission of a crime was a firearm

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).