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· 3/12/2024

Omotoye v. Td Bank

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  • upholding conviction in large part because of evidence showing that the firearm was “sufficiently accessible” to defendant
  • finding gun was accessible in case of emergency where gun was located in grass-catcher bag next to drugs
  • finding gun was accessible in case of emergency where gun was located in grass-catcher bag next to drugs
  • sufficient evidence to support use where weapon was stored with some of the drugs but across the backyard from the rest
  • in the context of crack houses, “protection of a drug operation may be presumed from the amount of firepower discovered on the premises”
  • admission that the gun was previously used to protect possession of drugs supported section 924(c) conviction

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Judges: Judge Christopher R. Cooper

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