United States v. Augustus Quintrell Light

How courts have described this case

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

• holding evidence was sufficient where police \recovered a gun from the alley\ where defendant was apprehended even though no one saw him drop it or \kept an eye on the spot where the gun was found\
• holding evidence was sufficient where police “recovered a gun from the alley” where defendant was apprehended even though no one saw him drop it or “kept an eye on the spot where the gun was found”
• finding sufficient evidence under similar facts where no usable prints were found on the gun after it was recovered
• finding equivocal assertion when the defendant “only asked the district court for information about ‘the rule’ on self-representation and manifested no intention to actually represent himself”
• relying on circumstantial evidence to show the defendant knowingly possessed the firearm
• district court's statement that \my discretion is limited to that 235 to 295\ insufficient to demonstrate reasonable probability of a lesser sentence

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

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  Eighth Circuit· 2005-06-13· cited 36×
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  Eighth Circuit· 2005-08-01· cited 19×
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  Eighth Circuit· 2010-03-05· cited 18×
• United States v. James Hull
  Eighth Circuit· 2005-08-19· cited 16×
• State v. Flanagan
  Connecticut Appellate Court· 2007-07-03· cited 5×
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  Eighth Circuit· 2024-01-30· cited 4×
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  Eighth Circuit· 2007-03-23· cited 1×
• United States v. Burl Washington
  Eighth Circuit· 2010-03-05· cited 1×
• United States v. Daniel W. Savage
  Eighth Circuit· 2005-07-18
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Cites

13 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• United States v. Booker
  Supreme Court· 2004-10-01· cited 23,210×
• United States v. Olano
  Supreme Court· 1993-04-26· cited 16,571×
• Faretta v. California
  Supreme Court· 1975-06-30· cited 11,585×
• Johnson v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1997-05-12· cited 4,572×
• United States v. Rodriguez
  Eleventh Circuit· 2005-02-04· cited 1,324×
• United States v. Louis F. Pirani
  Eighth Circuit· 2005-04-29· cited 941×
• United States v. Barela Cruz, United States of America v. Rufino Gonzales
  Eighth Circuit· 2002-04-03· cited 134×
• United States v. George A. Webster, Jr.
  Eighth Circuit· 1996-05-30· cited 123×
• United States v. Herbert Collins Beverly
  Sixth Circuit· 1984-12-03· cited 76×
• Charles O. Reese v. Crispus C. Nix
  Eighth Circuit· 1991-08-22· cited 67×
• United States v. Edwardo Flores Fitz
  Eighth Circuit· 2003-01-28· cited 67×
• United States v. Elbert Rankin
  Eighth Circuit· 1990-06-22· cited 30×
• United States v. William Dennis Echols, Also Known as William D. Harris, Also Known as Larry D. Jones
  Eighth Circuit· 1998-05-21· cited 24×