Supreme Court· 10/7/1996
Quintero-Barraza v. United States
Citations
- 519 U.S. 848
- 117 S. Ct. 135
- 136 L. Ed. 2d 83
- 65 U.S.L.W. 3259
- 1996 U.S. LEXIS 5191
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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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