Kirkland v. Lehigh Regional Medical Center, Prime Healthcare Services-Lehigh Acres, LLC

How courts have described this case

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• concluding that proximity of loaded handguns to drugs, paraphernalia, and proceeds was sufficient to support “in furtherance” element
• reasoning that presence at a crime scene can support the inference of association under certain circumstances
• explaining that the “in furtherance” element is satisfied if the government establishes “the existence of a specific ‘nexus’ between the charged firearm and the charged drug selling operation”
• noting that clear error exists where, “upon review of the entire record, [the court is] left with the definite and firm conviction that a mistake has been committed”
• stating that “conspiracy by its very nature is a secretive operation, and it is a rare case where all aspects of a conspiracy can be laid bare in court with ... precision”
• finding that defendant’s possession of a “loaded handgun[] . . . in the bedroom of [his] apartment where drugs were . . . stored for sale” was sufficient to support his section 924(c) conviction

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).