United States v. Alvin Ray

How courts have described this case

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• holding that Seibert did not produce a binding holding and adopting the Seibert plurality opinion as the law of the circuit
• finding that the defendant failed to show that the trial court's jury instruction was erroneous where the jury instruction followed the pattern instructions
• explaining that “[f]or a defendant’s confession to be involuntary, and therefore obtained in violation of the Fifth Amendment, ‘coercive police activity’ must have preceded the confession” (citation omitted)
• emphasizing that, when we “review[] for the sufficiency of evidence in support of a jury verdict,” we do “not weigh the evidence, consider the credibility of witnesses or substitute our judgment for that of the jury”
• stating that “specific nexus” between firearm and drug trafficking offense existed where, during the course of a search, a handgun was in a jacket pocket in the same closet as a separate jacket that contained crack cocaine
• describing factors that bear on whether there is sufficient evidence to support that a firearm was used “in furtherance of” a drug-trafficking crime

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).