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· 11/17/2005

United States v. Alphonso James, Jr.

Citations

  • 430 F.3d 1150
  • 2005 U.S. App. LEXIS 24665
  • 2005 WL 3070485

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

  • holding that defendant’s prior convic- tion under Fla. Stat. § 893.135(1)(b) qualified as a serious drug offense because possession of more than 28 grams of cocaine implies an intent to distribute
  • “Florida’s drug trafficking statute necessarily infers an intent to distribute once a defendant possesses 28 grams or more.”
  • reasoning similarly in ACCA context

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Judges: Black, Wilson, Cox

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